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ditigalcity:

Digital technology FAIL

girlwithalessonplan:

ineedafavor:

Starting this fall, schools in Indiana won’t have to teach kids how to write in cursive. Until now, kids started learning cursive handwriting in 2nd grade; but state education officials say computers and web books have made cursive a relic of the past; so it won’t be required any more. Local school districts can still teach it if they want; but the state says it’s more important to teach kids good keyboard skills.

Wow.  How did I miss this one?

I think it’s a shame.  Penmanship is a lost art.  Not that I have great handwriting, but the ART of writing, print or cursive, is gone.

econblues2011:

DETROIT (WWJ) – A group of Detroit students and workers are planning to take to the streets to show their displeasure with plans to cut programs and increase class sizes in the city’s public schools.

Students at both Southeastern High School and CMA organized several walkouts to protest plans…

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lavvocato:

kateoplis:

The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white. 

Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino. 

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What we really need is a multi-pronged approach to attacking segration: First, we need to fight poverty and economic inequality broadly. But while we do that, we also need to use every tool at our disposal—meaning both housing and education law and policy—to diversify our existing neighborhoods and schools.

Advocating for such policies does not imply that high-poverty, all-minority schools cannot be excellent. We know they can be. But on the whole, such schools are failing. One way to reverse those outcomes for kids is to get them into more diverse, higher functioning schools that are not overwhelmed by the challenges of poverty.

 

Remember Segregation nuff said and shown.

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