Research from a Toronto neighbourhood program yields insight into how to addresses schooling barriers, plus tips about how parents can support Black children during the summer break and when school starts again.
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US suburbs are rapidly diversifying, but students of color often face academic and social hurdles in suburban schools.
Teachers often view vocabulary building as the most important aspect of education. In reality, there are lots of other early learning experiences that children need to develop.
By investing in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, South Africa sacrifices investment in pressing societal needs. Instead, the country should be mobilised around the national goal of fixing schooling.
No matter whether it’s targets or quotas, “merit” is always held up as the stalwart gold standard. But can we judge merit without bias? And is merit really the right measure for ability anyway?
Robert Putnam’s new book aims to make the social inequality a core issue in the 2016 campaign: a member of his research team explains how.
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