Comments on: All In The Family http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/10/all-in-the-family.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:00:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Jon http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/10/all-in-the-family.html/comment-page-1#comment-68 Jon Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:31:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2007/10/all-in-the-family.html#comment-68 On the heels of the bad news about <a HREF="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/20922.html" REL="nofollow">poverty in public schools</a> and the <a HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_on_re_us/dropout_factories_28" REL="nofollow">'drop out factories'</a>, we have more and more evidence that the question 'what's wrong with public schools' really isn't the question to ask: 'what's wrong with America's economy' is the question.<br/><br/>I do believe that public schools can close the gap (as revealed by 90-90-90 schools out there) but a little help would be nice--address the issues of radical poverty in the US and schools will have less of an uphill battle. On the heels of the bad news about poverty in public schools and the ‘drop out factories’, we have more and more evidence that the question ‘what’s wrong with public schools’ really isn’t the question to ask: ‘what’s wrong with America’s economy’ is the question.

I do believe that public schools can close the gap (as revealed by 90-90-90 schools out there) but a little help would be nice–address the issues of radical poverty in the US and schools will have less of an uphill battle.

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