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jeffery heil

Without Internet, Urban Poor Fear Being Left Behind In Digital Age - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 04 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • She is one of an estimated 100 million Americans who have no way of accessing the Internet at home.
  • But being disconnected isn’t just a function of being poor.
  • it is also a reason some people stay poor.
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  • bout 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies -- including Target and Walmart -- only accept job applications online.
  • Nationwide, 40 percent of households with annual incomes below $20,000 (below the poverty line for a family of four) have broadband access at home, while 93 percent of households with incomes exceeding $75,000 have high-speed Internet,
  • The Federal Communications Commission plans to overhaul its Lifeline program to provide discounted Internet service to families in need, and has partnered with major cable providers to supply $10 Internet access to households with a child enrolled in the national school lunch program
  • In Sweden, customers pay $19 a month for broadband Internet of 1 megabit-per-second, while American consumers pay $35 a month for the same speed, the New America Foundation found.
Beverly Prange

LA Youth » How colleges pick who gets in - 0 views

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shared by Beverly Prange on 04 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • But really, I think a student who will do well on the SAT is a student who is well read, who enjoys reading, who enjoys vocabulary, who enjoys expressing themselves. Whether they like math or not, as long as they are doing well in [their math classes] and doing their assignments. We don’t care how many times you take it. Just take it, practice it, get comfortable with the test.
  • There are optional parts of the application where it asks how many people are in your family, what type of work does your mom or your dad do, are they divorced, has anyone passed away, how many people are in the family, income. That’s optional but I always tell students, “That information doesn’t hurt you. It can help or it’s going to be neutral.”
  • Beverly Prange on 04 Jun 12
     
    A great piece to share with students--links to an excellent essay by a student facing equity issues as she prepares for college
jeffery heil

Education Week: Study Finds Minority Students Get Harsher Punishments - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Black and Hispanic students are far more likely to be kicked out of school when they break the rules, including some that often have nothing to do with keeping students safe, according to a new report from a civil rights research and advocacy group
  • there is no evidence that banishing some students will improve the education of classmates still in school, while studies have show that punishing students increases their risk of dropping out.
  • students who miss class time for misbehavior are at a greater risk of missing out on educational opportunities, but schools only reluctantly turn to alternatives for managing students’ behavior
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  • 28 percent of African-American middle school boys had been suspended at least once, compared with 10 percent of white males nationwide. For girls, it was 18 percent of black students, compared with 4 percent of white students.
  • possessing or using a cellphone at school, almost 33 percent of first-time black middle school offenders were suspended, compared with 4.5 percent of white students. For dress-code violations, 38.3 percent of black students for whom it was a first-time offense were suspended, vs. 6.6 percent of white students.
  • unconscious bias likely plays a part in the disparities
  • many minority students have teachers with less experience.
  • arlier this year, a Fairfax County, Va., teenager committed suicide, which his family and friends connected to a seven-week suspension he received for his first serious school rule violation.
  • than half of all Texas middle and high school students were suspended or expelled at least once between 7th and 12th grades, but the punishments were applied unevenly between students of different races, abilities, and schools, and students disciplined with those methods were more likely to repeat a grade or drop out of school than students who were not punished in the same way.
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