Successful Policies for Low-income Children Yet High Cost and Low Resolve Trump Evidence | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Successful Policies for Low-income Children Yet High Cost and Low Resolve Trump Evidence | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

Successful Policies for Low-income Children Yet High Cost and Low Resolve Trump Evidence

by larrycuban

Preschool programs for low-income children help build solid adults, the evidence says. Wraparound programs offering poor children and youth rigorous academic content and social services help build solid adults, theevidence says. Now there is even more evidence. Offering college scholarships to elementary school children who graduate high school works.

In 1981, a businessman offered college tuition to elementary school students in New York City who graduated high school. Called “I Have a Dream,” Eugene Lang’s efforts had prompted two Washington, D.C. businessmen