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Helping the Poor in Education: The Power of a Simple Nudge - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by hcps-bahamma on 31 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • hcps-bahamma on 31 Jan 15
     
    Basically this article talks about the opportunity gap between poorer and richer students and how little things, like texts to the students and telling parents about their child's performance in school, can help start closing that gap.
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The Opportunity Gap - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by Chase Brooksbank on 29 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • hcps-dallavacn on 29 Jan 15
     
    "Decades ago, college-graduate parents and high-school-graduate parents invested similarly in their children. Recently, more affluent parents have invested much more in their children's futures while less affluent parents have not." This article is about how important a college diploma is for a stable future. High-school-graduate parents are less likely to invest in their children's future, setting their family up for trouble down the road.
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  • hcps-graffmj on 01 Feb 15
     
    "It's not only that richer kids have become more active. Poorer kids have become more pessimistic and detached. Social trust has fallen among all income groups, but, between 1975 and 1995, it plummeted among the poorest third of young Americans and has remained low ever since. As Putnam writes in notes prepared for the Aspen Ideas Festival: "It's perfectly understandable that kids from working-class backgrounds have become cynical and even paranoid, for virtually all our major social institutions have failed them - family, friends, church, school and community." As a result, poorer kids are less likely to participate in voluntary service work that might give them a sense of purpose and responsibility. Their test scores are lagging. Their opportunities are more limited." Discusses if children of wealthier families are more likely to succeed monetarily. Explains why poorer children may be prevented from succeeding.
  • hcps-sabistojw1 on 02 Feb 15
     
    "While most studies look at inequality of outcomes among adults and help us understand how America is coming apart, Putnam's group looked at inequality of opportunities among children. They help us understand what the country will look like in the decades ahead. The quick answer? More divided than ever." This article explains how children from unequal income families have different chances in later life success. Also about an attention gap with college-educated and working-class parents and their children.
  • Chase Brooksbank on 02 Feb 15
     
    "While most studies look at inequality of outcomes among adults and help us understand how America is coming apart, Putnam's group looked at inequality of opportunities among children. They help us understand what the country will look like in the decades ahead. The quick answer? More divided than ever."
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