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Gaps in Teacher Effectiveness Hurt Young, Minority Students

January 29, 2016

by Freddie Allen NNPA News Wire Senior Correspondent Minority and low-income students are less likely to have consistent access to effective teachers between preschool and the third grade than students from high-income households, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington, D.C-based think tank. Rachel Herzfeldt-Kamprath, a researcher at […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Center for American Progress CAP, Freddie Allen, Preschool

Investing in the Education of Students of Color Benefits All Americans

December 4, 2015

by Jamal Hagler Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Center for American Progress As Congress prepares to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, it is vitally important that the updated law address the significant achievement gaps that plague the nation’s most underserved populations: students of color and low-income students. Providing […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Academic Achievement Gaps, Center for American Progress CAP, Elementary and Secondary Education Act ESEA, ESEA Reauthorization, Jamal Hagler

Boosting Child Tax Credit Would Lift Poor Black Children Out of Poverty

August 28, 2015

by Freddie Allen, Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Reforms proposed to the Child Tax Credit by the Center for American Progress could help to reduce poverty in children younger than 3 years old in the Black community by nearly 22 percent. The plans to enhance the credit are laid out in a report by […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Poverty, Center for American Progress CAP, Child Tax Credit, Freddie Allen, Poverty

Black Women Face Pay Gap

May 1, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent May 1, 2015   Nearly 60 percent of Black women worked in either the service industry, sales or office jobs. (Stock Photo)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Black women working full time earned just 64 cents for every dollar White men made in 2013, according to a […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Center for American Progress CAP, Economic Policy Institute EPI, Gender Gap, MAY 1 2015, Pay Gap, VOL. 25 NO. 16

Critics Say GOP Education Reform Would Hurt Poor and Black Students

March 6, 2015

By Freddie Allen, Senior NNPA Washington Correspondent March 6, 2015   Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said that a strong ESEA is vital to ensuring that states and school districts are living up to their obligation to provide a quality education for all. (Freddie Allen/NNPA/File Photo) […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Center for American Progress CAP, Education Reform, Elementary and Secondary Education Act ESEA, GOP Republican Party, MARCH 6 2015, Nancy Hicks Maynard, No Child Left Behind Act NCLB, VOL. 25 NO. 8, Wade Henderson

Racial Disparities in Early Childhood Hurts U.S.

March 6, 2015

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent March 6, 2015   Ready Freddy visits prekindergarten students at a public school in Buffalo, N.Y. (David Duprey/AP Photo)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Increased investment in early childhood education and care can eradicate many of the racial success gaps that persist throughout society, according to a new […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Center for American Progress CAP, Child Care Development Block Grant CCDBG, Early Childhood Education, Early Head Start EHS, Inequality, MARCH 6 2015, Racial Disparities, Racism, VOL. 25 NO. 8



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