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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Fw: Pelosi Task Force is a hoax
In a message dated 1/5/2007 12:50:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, aburke5054@aol.com writes: The average African-American 12th grader achieves at the level of the average White 8th grader. Keeping the schools open longer for those children, together with running the schools better, seem terribly important and terribly sensible. Good luck with trying to convince people that sending African-American 12th graders out into the world with the skills of White 8th graders somehow does them a favor by giving them summers off. Art Changing calendars and extending the school year is a simplistic approach to a complex problem. If a longer school year were an education remedy, then why are so few private schools year-round schools? --billee
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