Showing posts with label Are High-Poverty Schools Educating the Poor to Remain so?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Are High-Poverty Schools Educating the Poor to Remain so?. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Are High-Poverty Schools Educating the Poor to Remain so?

Each year, many of the 15 million students enrolled in public secondary schools ask the same question: What's the point of staying in school if the choices are a minimum-wage job upon graduation or a minimum-wage job now?

These students have astutely recognized a pitiful paradigm for far too many students enrolled in public education institutions.