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Dill, Vicky – Educational Leadership, 2015
The bank foreclosed on your home because your parents divorced and don't have enough money to pay the mortgage. You're locked out of your house. Where will the family sleep? Most families turn to friends and relatives at times like these. That's why about 75 percent of the 1,258,182 homeless students in the United States live…
Descriptors: Trauma, Homeless People, Living Standards, Family Life
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Weissbourd, Richard; Dodge, Trevor – Educational Leadership, 2012
Although most people in the United States believe, at least theoretically, in educational equality, fewer and fewer appear to care about the resource gaps between affluent and poor schools, says Weissbourd. He illustrates these gaps with vivid descriptions of what he calls an "opulence arms race" among affluent independent schools, but…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Advantaged, Differences
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Tucker, Marc – Educational Leadership, 2007
The United States no longer has the best educated workforce in the world. To maintain its current standard of living and successfully compete in the global economy, the country needs to overhaul an antiquated education system that is not geared to produce the graduates it needs. In a new report, Tough Choices or Tough Times, the New Commission on…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Preschool Education, Living Standards, Education Work Relationship