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Income, Parental
Education Linked To Pre-School Learning Gaps
Joy Resmovits, Huffington Post, Posted: 12/20/11 05:35 PM
ET
Just as Obama awarded over $500 million in state grants to improve pre-K, the Brookings Institutionreleased
a report arguing more attention paid to family background factors such as
poverty and maternal education would help improve educational outcomes for our
littlest learners.
The report argued that
gaps in children's ability to learn begin long before they enter the classroom
-- and that those gaps can have lasting effects on class mobility.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/income-inequality-education_n_1161362.html
About 15 Percent of Charter Schools Shut Down,
Group Says
About 15 percent of the nation's charter schools
close—and that's not a bad thing, according to a newly released report, which argues that
those shutdowns are proof that the system weeds out institutions that can't cut
it for one reason or another.
Of roughly 6,700 charter schools that have
opened in the United States ,
1,036 have closed since 1992, says a report unveiled today by the Center for
Education Reform, in Washington
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/2011/12/about_15_percent_of_charter_schools_close_group_says.html
Gingrich, Romney,
Obama--education triplets
Washngton Post By Jay Mathews
If school policy were a
prime issue and we judged the three principal contenders of the moment — former
House speaker Newt Gingrich, President Obama and former Massachusetts governor
Mitt Romney — on that basis, the race would be dull three-way tie.
The president and the
two Republicans each have some unique ideas for schools, but by and large they
support the test-driven, school-rating, pro-charter-school policy that has
ruled the United States
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