Sentences with phrase «poor kids a college education»

The Pew Report even suggests, on page twenty - five, that 90 percent of poor kids who graduate from college escape poverty as adults, which would seem to be the obvious place to mention the salient fact that our education system is not getting very many poor kids a college education.

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There, liberals see better opportunities for poor and minority kids to get to college without exiting the «public education» corral.

«When all kids get the same, rigorous high school curriculum, we know that poor and minority students can more than hold their own in college,» said Education Trust Director Kati Haycock.

Kevin has come to some conclusions that don't sound all that remarkable at first: That college — or at least postsecondary education — is essential for poor kids to make it into the middle class; and that it's not enough to exhort his students to raise their aspirations, or even prepare them academically.

The fact that just 23 percent of Black seventh - and eighth - graders in seven states took Algebra 1 (as of 2011 - 2012) is one example of how poor and minority kids lose out on college - preparatory education they deserve.

As reported yesterday in Dropout Nation, the civil rights collection's data on whether districts are providing comprehensive college - preparatory education to all of its students is flawed because it focuses on proportionality of course participation compared to overall district enrollment; this doesn't fully reveal the extent of how few kids — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — are not getting the preparation they need to do well in traditional colleges, technical schools, and apprenticeships (and ultimately, in the adult world).

The results from those new Common Core tests — designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills — have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep - seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

The 52 - page report along wrongfully perpetuates a century - old philosophy — that poor and minority kids aren't capable of high - quality, college - level education — that is condemning far too many young men and women to poverty and prison.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

MOOCs: A path to early college New programs use data to steer poor kids into college High school grads aren't even ready for low community college expectations, report says Conventional college route shifts to «education buffet»

You want to give your kid a bright future and you have to depend on private schools / colleges because of the poor education system and infrastructure of the government sponsored educational institutions.