There have been calls for a universal Pre-K, which sounds good in theory but probably will ultimately do just as much harm as the current system. The national high school graduation rate for African Americans is 73 percent, which is almost 10 percentage points lower than the national average and 14 percentage points lower than European Americans. By age three, children from lower income homes have heard 30 million fewer words. Perhaps the worst kept secret is that groups who come from disadvantaged backgrounds have a chronic gap when it comes to education. That being said, as someone who comes from a family of educators and being a community college professor for a period of time and seeing just what happens when an adult has had a weak K-12 experience, I often ponder ways in which communities can go about closing education gaps among groups and strengthening the education infrastructure. I said to him it was the difference between showing a kid a map of India and taking them there. My father could not understand what PEA could possibly be spending over five times the amount on.

as a whole spends about $12,000 per student annually. The New York Times stated that Philips Exeter Academy in 2008 spent $63,500 per student annually, while a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shows that the U.S. It was one evening some years ago that my father and I had a debate in my parents living room about an article that I read in the New York Times concerning prep schools versus public schools and how much they spend per student. Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

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