Posted on 05 April 2016. Tags: charter school, Harlem, Harlem Children's Zone, poverty, standardized testing, testing
When the Harlem Children’s Zone opened a charter school in a housing project, it set out to raise test scores. While grades haven’t improved dramatically, the school has helped to create a community and is slowly changing the culture of the neighborhood.
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Posted on 13 May 2014. Tags: Finland, Inequality, poor, poverty, pubic education
Matt Bruenig writes for Salon that “fixation on education as a solution to poverty, inequality or any other distributional problem is totally wrongheaded.”
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Posted on 01 May 2014. Tags: book review, charter school, education, Harlem Children's Zone, How Children Succeed, Paul Tough, poverty, Whatever It Takes
For the better part of the last decade New York Times reporter Paul Tough has written about education, poverty and the obstacles to success students both in New York and across America face.
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Posted on 25 March 2013. Tags: alex kotlowitz, Chicago, gang violence, poverty
There Are No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz, tells the heartbreaking story about two boys growing up in a Chicago housing project in the late 1980s.
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Posted on 12 March 2013. Tags: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, education, poverty, Random Family
In her book “Random Family,” journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc chronicles the lives of two young women and their families as they struggle to navigate poverty, crime, drugs and life in the Bronx.
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Posted on 08 May 2012. Tags: Brownsville, District 2, District 23, Inequality, poverty, progress reports, PS 178, PS 6, Upper East Side
New York is a city of contrasts. The richest families live only a subway ride away from the poorest, but the income gap is the largest in the country.
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Posted in Featured, Projects
Posted on 01 May 2012. Tags: A Hope in the Unseen, poverty, Ron Suskind
Ron Suskind’s A Hope in the Unseen explains how and why poverty is cyclical in this country. More importantly, the book shows (not tells) why it is so difficult, nearly impossible, for impoverished Americans to break that cycle and “make it out.” The main character in the book, Cedric, finds himself in a position all too typical of young African […]
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Posted on 23 February 2012. Tags: Barnard, Diane Ravitch, poverty, teacher evaluation
America treats public schools like shoe stores, said Diane Ravitch at Tuesday night’s lecture at Barnard College on the topic of “For the Public Good.”
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