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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

The literacy rate in America is marked by a gap between privileged and disadvantaged communities. 8] Before school gets out for the summer, connect parents with guided reading activities and summer learning programs for elementary students. Scholastic Instructor, May 2005, 114(8), pp. Principal Journal, January 2001, 80(3), pp.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2001: $450,000,000. FY 1998: $425,000,000.

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How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

The Hechinger Report

North Smithfield Manor has long been zoned for Gardendale schools as part of the district’s integration efforts, and Williams had planned her life around sending her children to Gardendale High, where more than seven out of 10 graduates enroll in college—one of the highest rates in the district. You are trying to take that from them.

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