The biggest scandal in America
(http://www.empowernetwork.com)
To listen to the discourse in Washington, you might think that the worst scandal in America right now is Benghazi or theInternal Revenue Service or the Obama administration’s leak investigations or the now not-so-secret U.S. surveillance programs conducted by the secretive National Security Agency. Or some might choose the frightening state of disrepair into which we’ve allowed the nation’s infrastructure to fall. (A 2013 report says that America’s cumulative GPA for infrastructure rose this year to a D+ — and that it would take $3.7 trillion by 2020 to fix.) And the country’s refusal to deal substantively with climate change is a biggest-scandal contender (though this is not a problem exclusive to this country).
Yet, the scandal that beats them all, in my view, is this: 22 percent of children in the richest country in the history of the world live at or below the federal poverty line — and if it weren’t bad enough that more than 1 in five American children live at or belowthe federal poverty line, nearly half live in low-income families that struggle to meet
Teachers: Why so many kids are flunking final exams in Montgomery County
Several recent Washington Post stories have focused on revelations that a high percentage of students have failed, or nearly failed, math final exams in the highly regarded Montgomery County Public School system every year over the last five years. In … Continue reading →
Several recent Washington Post stories have focused on revelations that a high percentage of students have failed, or nearly failed, math final exams in the highly regarded Montgomery County Public School system every year over the last five years. In … Continue reading →