Posts Tagged with ‘poverty’
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Diversity Is A Good Thing
11 Jun 2017But what is it? Like pornography, it seems to be something folks “know” when they see, but aren’t very comfortable…
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People to Politicians: Address The Needy
14 Jul 2014As a child I wondered of my elders ‘where were you’ during WWII? Why had you not “done something”? And…
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Scarecrows Countering Common Core
27 Nov 2013We seem to be caught up in a national hysteria that confuses association with cause. Everywhere there is talk of…
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Listen To The Affected: Kids And Guardians
11 Nov 2013I have a guilty parent-secret. I like to pause at the start of the school day and watch guardians and…
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Enacting Economic Equity
07 Nov 2013It’s the avowed 800 pound gorilla in the room: poverty just mucks up everyone’s numbers. Kids don’t “achieve learning”, schools…
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I Say Poverty, You Say “Lunch, Anyone”?
26 Sep 2013How many children in LAUSD are “poor”? What does poverty look like in LAUSD; how is it concentrated? It turns…
