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Feds Have Harsh Criticism, Disappointing Reviews For States' Education

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 03.31.2012

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MIAMI — In its initial review of No Child Left Behind waiver requests, the U.S. Education Department highlighted a similar weakness in nearly ev...

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Educators Alarmed: Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago

| Teresa Wiltz | Posted 03.24.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of America's Wire. WASHINGTON —- Educators are expressing alarm that the performance gap between minority and whi...

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Poor, Homeless Students Living Out Of Cars As Childhood Poverty Climbs

Posted 01.29.2012

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More than 16 million children now live in poverty in the United States, the highest number since 1962. In all, 19.8 percent of school children were l...

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How It Really Hurts To Be Poor In America With Poorly Educated Parents

Posted 01.18.2012

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Intuitively, a child's academic performance is likely higher if he or she has highly educated parents, and lower if the child has less educated parent...

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Internships: Gateway to Opportunity or an Obstacle for Low-Income Students?

Michael Laracy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Laracy

The implications for poverty have been clear: if low-income individuals increase their educational attainment, poverty will decline. But education isn't the whole story.

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Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan"

Cheryl Lubin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cheryl Lubin

As a high school teacher who dips into my own wallet to buy paper and pencils for students in the second largest school district in the land, I recognize the dangers of a pro-voucher McCain administration. Vouchers are not, as Obama so succinctly put it, the panacea for failing schools.

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