What I like about this article is that it makes it clear that there is no single way to support what they call education for the poor. As the diagram says, "no single layer solves it alone". And it offers an effective counter to single-minded programs (such as the religious and charter schools recommended in Deseret News, via the always negative Joanne Jacobs). My view: There's a lot of data showing a correlation between socio-economic status and learning outcomes, which is why support programs, including dental and health care, sit alongside good pedagogy and access to resources as essential elements in educational equity. As I said in the very first few issues of OLDaily some 25 years ago, if you want children to do better at school, feed them. (The downside of this article: it's from a very sketchy source, Unlock Knowledge and Talent Upliftment (UKTU), "an independent human-vetter informational framework". I probably should never have linked to it, but now I'm here, I may as well pass it along as a cautionary note).
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