Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Sunday

$1 Billion In Tax Dollars To Miseducate Our Children

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$1 Billion In Tax Dollars To Miseducate Our Children:



 "While the proponents of school choice argue that public schools are not properly equipping children for success in the real world and need to be held accountable, they often reject accountability for private schools that use textbooks that not only are overtly sectarian, but pass off highly controversial assertions – or outright falsehoods – as indisputable fact. All too frequently, low-income children and people of color are used as pawns in this push for what amounts to little more than the right to use taxpayer dollars for right-wing indoctrination."





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Education concerns dominate legislative listening session | Legislature | ADN.com

English: Flag of Juneau, Alaska
English: Flag of Juneau, Alaska (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Education concerns dominate legislative listening session | Legislature | ADN.com:

 "With cuts looming in Anchorage classrooms and among auxiliary school staff like nurses and counselors, the speakers were almost unanimous that public education was getting short shrift from Juneau."

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Tuesday

Literacy called key to putting minorities in college | TribLIVE

Literacy called key to putting minorities in college | TribLIVE:

 "The way to increase minority enrollment in colleges and universities is to improve the literacy rates of students, a former director of the Washington Archdiocese‘s Office of Black Catholics said Monday at St. Vincent College‘s observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day."



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Recipe for literacy success: start early and read often | SouthCoastToday.com

Recipe for literacy success: start early and read often | SouthCoastToday.com:

 "NEW BEDFORD — When it comes to improving graduation rates, the key is to start reading early, said Pam Kuechler.

And she means early.

"As soon as infants are born, parents should be reading to them," said Kuechler, coordinator of the Greater New Bedford Early Literacy Consortium."


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