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"Students of color, disabled and limited English students -- you hear over and over they feel teachers don't have the same expectations for them as for white kids," said John Mudd, senior project director at Massachusetts Advocates for Children. "I think the schools have a responsibility to deal with all children as they come to them successfully, that all children have potential."
"Seventy percent of all African American children live in a home with only a mother," noted Nation of Islam Minister Don Muhammed. "The father obviously doesn't know his responsibility because he would be there. When you have a mother who has to go out and work, she doesn't have time to make sure her child gets his homework done.""There are a huge number of people going to school without preschool training," said Ellen Guiney, executive director of the Boston Plan for Excellence. "And in first grade, a lot haven't been to kindergarten. It takes a lot of on-site investment in teachers in these schools because we have to take time to accelerate their learning."See the full content of this document
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Lawsuit Forces State to Confront Inequities
A state judge recently recommended that Massachusetts pump more money into low-income school districts.
But increased school funding alone will not solve the achievement gap between students in urban and suburban distr...See the full content of this document
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