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February 20, 2013

Dept. of Education Panel Says School System Burdening Low-Income Children 
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A federal commission has found U.S. education policies are burdening
students from low-income families. In a new report, the Equity and
Excellence Commission concluded: "No other developed nation has
inequities nearly as deep or systemic; no other developed nation has ...
so thoroughly stacked the odds against so many of its children." The
panel goes on to call for greater investments in public education,
better training of teachers, equality in allocating funds, and a new
push for more ethnically diverse schools. The commission was created by
the Department of Education, but its findings largely reject the
department's bipartisan education reform effort, saying the focus on
charter schools and standardized testing has been "poorly targeted."

 

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