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...many bake sales does it take to save a teacher's job? For decades, public-school parents have organized such fundraising events to cover the costs of field trips, sports equipment and other frills that enrich their children's education. Yet now, as recession clouds hang ever lower and state budgets tighten, schools and districts are increasingly asking adults to help pay for essentials. Parents are under pressure to bring in big bucks for supplies, technology and even, in some cases, staff salaries. That's a lot of sugar cookies...
...Education offers one of the most comprehensive looks yet at the achievement gap between white and black pupils, based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The NAEP (pronounced nape) is a federal standardized test - known as "the nation's report card" - administered to fourth- and eighth-grade public-school students in reading and math. The state-by-state results show clear evidence of a continued problem: black students trail their white classmates in every state. But the report also offers some encouraging signs: overall scores have risen, and racial disparities are gradually shrinking in most areas, especially among younger...
...lack of familiarity with Washington parlor games. Her academic specialty is bankruptcy law, especially as it pertains to the American middle class. She emerged on the public stage in 2003, when she published the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke, co-authored with her daughter. The book argues that women and middle-class couples were driving themselves to ruin trying to buy houses in good public-school districts: "Having a child is now the single best predictor that a woman will end up in financial collapse...
Nearly five decades ago, when one of her teachers called her to the front of her Atlanta public-school classroom, Evelynn M. Hammonds—the first black woman to serve as Dean of Harvard College—thought she would be recognized for an ‘A’ she had recently earned on a test...
...particular." Florida, of course, is hardly the only state where female teachers have been nabbed for preying on boys. And nationwide, male teachers still commit far more acts of sexual misconduct than females. A 2004 Education Department study found that about 10% of the nation's 50 million public-school students had experienced some kind of improper sexual attention from teachers and other school employees, and a 2007 Associated Press report indicated that men were involved almost 90% of the time. What's more, even in Florida, those offenders are a small fraction of the state's more than...