Tag: education
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K-12 Education Spending
There is very little more essential to a free society than universal literacy and adequate public education. It is a civil rights issue. It is the foundation for absolutely everything else. To fail here is to lastingly abandon a significant fraction of our children to a lifelong struggle. Quote is from The Argument’s post in…
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Good news out of Mississippi!
“And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam”– Nina Simone A massive surge in children’s literacy in my home state! Perhaps more noticeable than how exciting that is is how grim the numbers look in other states: 41% of public school 4th graders in California cannot read at a basic level. Not good. This good news doesn’t travel far and…