The increase came in response to a 1986 law requiring local summer programs for disadvantaged youths to include assessment of educational deficiencies and remedial assistance along with work experience. (edweek.org)
· variations in educational deficiency or proficiency of fellow students that are correlated with race (educationnext.org)
Also embarrassed by the America Achieves study is the lefty labor Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., which recently released a sophomoric study (see my January 16, 2013, post on the Education Next blog) that tried to use the PISA data to attribute educational deficiencies to the U.S. social structure, not its school system. (educationnext.org)