The story of three friends from Galveston, Tex., seems less a tribute to upward mobility than a study of obstacles in an age of economic inequality.
Via Pamela D Lloyd
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Applying and Integrating Media and Technology for Learning and Traditional and Post Modern Classroom.
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Via Pamela D Lloyd
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Racing to the Top and Testing in order to hold behind those that are behind (NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND) leaves many students with other personal struggles extremely challenged to move forward into that upward mobility. Class and poverty does not figure into these top down challenges being placed on these students.
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This story explains a disturbing trend I've witnessed. Upward mobility is not yet impossible, but the climb from poverty is far more difficult than is generally acknowledge.