35 Words About The Heart Of The Problem Of American K-12 Education

A New York Times article describes the "radical" experiment in progress in the post-Katrina New Orleans public schools. It includes one teacher’s concise summary of the difficulty the schools face:’Most of the kids come from broken homes,’ he said. ’Their parents are dead, in jail or on drugs. You can tell the kids from two-parent homes. Theyre getting straight As, and they are respectful.’
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[Source: The Money Blogs]