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Poverty in Schools

Paul Tough: The Obama Administration's Big Missed Opportunity

| Posted 11.04.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. What if much of what we think we know about success is wrong? What if the metrics we use i...

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The Cost of Education

Ilana Garon | Posted 12.12.2011 | Home
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Ilana Garon

The poverty of inner-city schools is one of those issues about which everyone has an opinion, but I've found that most people are hard-pressed to describe what this looks like on a day-to-day basis.

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The Global Search for Education: India Time

C. M. Rubin | Posted 08.21.2011 | Home
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C. M. Rubin

"Our problems right now in India are different to those of more developed nations. India has a poor education system. However, our society values education more than anything."

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