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Angela Winston

The Black-White Achievement Gap: Do State Policies Matter? - 0 views

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  • Angela Winston on 13 Feb 11
     
    Investigates to find out if there is a relationship between state education policies and changes in the black-white achievement gap.
Phil Riddle

Low-achieving Va. high school turns crisis into challenge - 0 views

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NCLB Race to the Top School Reform Achievement Gap

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  • Phil Riddle on 05 Feb 11
     
    This article is just about one high school but it represents the confluence of the many factors that impact public education; NCLB, Race to the Top, reform initiatives, and the achievement gap.
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Educate or incarcerate? NAACP pushes states to shift priorities. - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

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ADMS707 Niemeyer Achievement Gap

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  • Better education can save society money in the long run, “but our refusal to make sane investments in these kids has led to an explosion in the costs of our criminal justice system,” says Amy Wilkins, vice president for government affairs at Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on narrowing the achievement gap.
  • REL N on 08 Apr 11
     
    Better education can save society money in the long run, "but our refusal to make sane investments in these kids has led to an explosion in the costs of our criminal justice system," says Amy Wilkins, vice president for government affairs at Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on narrowing the achievement gap.
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Jack Jennings: Get the Federal Government Out of Education? That Wasn't the Founding Fa... - 0 views

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  • the answer isn't to eliminate federal involvement in education. That would be a wrong-headed move that ignores our country's history and would contribute to the decline of the United States. It's also a battle that has been fought and lost before because the stakes are simply too high.
  • Federal involvement began more than 225 years ago, even before George Washington was president, when Congress passed two laws -- the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- to create and maintain public schools in the expanding United States.
  • The specifics of federal land grants were outlined in each of the federal acts for admitting these states.
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  • the achievement gap narrowed between adolescent white and black students. And the percentage of children with disabilities who attended public school rose from only 20 percent in 1970 to 95 percent in 2007.
  • three-fourths of all college student aid comes from federal sources, whether through the tax code, direct grants or subsidized loans.
  • These indirect subsidies of education through the federal tax code total at least $21 billion for post-secondary education, and at least $17 billion for elementary and secondary education. These amounts are almost as significant as the direct grants made by the federal government to support education.
  • "Getting the federal government out of education" would endanger the progress made by -- among others -- children with disabilities, African-American children, and women and girls
  • The achievement gap between U.S. students and their international peers deprived the national economy of as much as $2.3 trillion in 2008, according to the McKinsey Quarterly.
  • How can the country raise academic achievement if 14,000 local school districts are each making their own decisions on most key aspects of education?
  • Over the course of American history, the national government has aimed to better educate the citizenry as a basis for democracy and economic prosperity. Today, our nation must act with greater, not less, unity to improve schools.
  • REL N on 25 Feb 11
     
    Those who can afford to pay for all private K-12 and college expenses for their children may not care if the Federal government is involved in our education system. All the rest of the country needs to take heed and acknowledge the need for continued and expanded federal involvement. Without sounding flippant... do you suppose that those who might be leading the charge to get the Federal government out of education and make draconian cuts in social programs under the guise that tax burdens are too high and individualism trumps social justice are the same millionaires and billionaires who fund the tea party et al.? Sadly, the "regular folk" who are falling for that rhetoric do not recognize that they are paving their own way to..... [let's just say poverty].
Georggetta Howie

NCLB Revisited - 1 views

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ADMS707 education achievement gap NCLB

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  • Georggetta Howie on 24 Feb 11
     
    The former US Secetary of Education attempts to expose how the federal government engagement should have looked like.
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