Despite the popular yet unsophisticated opinion, we know that it isn’t always about personnel. NPR’s Anya Kamenetz interviews The Century Foundation‘s Richard Kahlenberg on some of the research-based factors educators know increase student achievement: integration.
Why America’s Schools Have A Money Problem
This article, posted by NPR‘s Morning Edition, provides insight into the current economic state of American education, with historical origins, and perspectives between low-income and affluent communities and school districts. It began with a question: “How do we pay for our schools?”
Today, our school funding system is infinitely more complex, but still based on that one, powerful idea — that education is a public good, and paying for it could be considered a public obligation.
