by Amanda Zhang People from all walks of life enjoy marijuana — white people, black people, poor people, old people, republicans, liberals — in America’s 300 some years of existence, smoking pot may just be the most egalitarian past-time in the history of our great nation — unlike college education. The current cost of college […]
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Closing Achievement Gaps Requires More than Education Reform
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent June 19, 2015 WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Education reform alone isn’t enough to close achievement gaps between Blacks and Whites, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The study by EPI, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on the needs of low- […]