Echoes of Pat Moynihan
In today's New York Times piece about the alarming achievement gap between black and white males, we hear this from Harvard scholar Ron Ferguson:
In today's New York Times piece about the alarming achievement gap between black and white males, we hear this from Harvard scholar Ron Ferguson:
The two biggest spenders of recent years?in American education, namely Arne Duncan and Bill Gates, have come to the realization that a new day has dawned with respect to K-12 budgets.?
Want a ?private school feel? without paying the private school price? Why not try this fast-growing academy.
?Now, if you tell a teacher they're not doing a good job, it's like you're attacking the entire profession.? * Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
So, our Fordham-AEI volume, Stretching the School Dollar (Harvard Education Press, 2010) is having quite a good week.
Seven years after his death, Daniel Patrick Moynihan still makes the front page of the New York Times. The immediate context one day in mid-October was an article on the ?culture of poverty?
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