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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Longish research-based paper that makes a point many of us have been making for years (though it falls on deaf ears): "the best way to improve America's schools is through jobs that provide families living wages. Other programs are noted that offer some help for students from poor families. But in the end, it is inequality in income and the poverty that accompanies such inequality, that matters most for education."

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