How mixed income neighborhoods could save schools

Published: Sunday, Nov. 18 2012 10:10 p.m. MST

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Although policymakers and educators are trying to reduce income-based achievement gaps, new evidence suggests the spread between the rich and the poor is growing. Since the 1960s, the achievement gap between high-income and low-income students has grown by 40 percent, according to a 2011 study by Sean Reardon of Stanford University.

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UtahBlueDevil

Durham, NC

Too many forget that how a school performs has a much to do with the engagement level of the local community as it does with anything that happens inside the 4 walls of a classroom. Many kids don't have the same "at home" resources More..

6:12 a.m. Nov. 19, 2012
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RedShirt

USS Enterprise, UT

The researchers are dumb. The answer is something that they, along with so many educators, don't realize that the success of students come from their parents and the peers' parents. Just look at the story presented here. When her child More..

11:47 a.m. Nov. 19, 2012
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RedShirt

USS Enterprise, UT

To "UtahBlueDevil" again, you are wrong. Educators do have a choice about the the type of kids that they teach. When a teacher is looking for a job, they can choose which schools they want to teach at. The better schools will choose the More..

4:26 p.m. Nov. 19, 2012
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