Category: Article
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Listen to: Starting a business from scratch: the joys and the headaches
Listen to: Starting a business from scratch: the joys and the headaches – http://one.npr.org/i/492425035:492425037
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Let’s move PA fwd… The good and bad news in 2016 on Women’s Equality Day – Philadelphia Business Journal
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2016/08/26/womens-equality-day-the-good-and-bad-news-on-pay.html
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Let’s hope… NYTimes: The Good News About Educational Inequality
America will not compete unless we remove zip code, family income, and mother’s education from the discriminating factors in student performance. The Good News About Educational Inequality http://nyti.ms/2bMURct
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The Effect of Gender Wage Inequality on Women’s Empowerment in the Workplace
In the U.S. and around the world, gender wage inequality remains a serious problem. In the financial sector, for example, women are paid as low as a 54 percent of men’s salaries. This issue not only affects women financially but also in terms of leadership opportunities. Research suggests that gender…
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Disgusting… Report: Charter administration costs double those of other public schools
Charter-school administrative expenditures are nearly double those of conventional public schools, and their highest-ranking officials are paid far more. They spend less on instruction than school districts, but more on support services and facilities. Source: Report: Charter administration costs double those of other public schools
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NYTimes: Bay Area Start-Ups Find Low-Cost Outposts in Arizona
Where’s Philadelphia? Bay Area Start-Ups Find Low-Cost Outposts in Arizona http://nyti.ms/2bt53Dw
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Why are fewer students interested in becoming teachers? | Radio Times | WHYY
Unfortunate and scary situation directly tied to a failure to elevate the status of teachers among the ranks of professionals. These are the ones who teach our children to be productive leaders of our nation. Why would we not hold them in highest regard? I know I do. Source: Why are…
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Schools Matter: It’s poverty, not teacher quality
“When researchers control for the effect of poverty, American students score near the top of the world on international tests. Our overall scores are unspectacular because of our unacceptably high child poverty rate, now around 25%. The problem is poverty, not teacher quality. Poverty means food deprivation, lack of health…
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Millions Of Americans May Be Drinking Toxic Water, Harvard Study Finds — ThinkProgress
https://thinkprogress.org/millions-of-americans-may-be-drinking-toxic-water-harvard-study-finds-5778082bf7aa#.uobrhjbre
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Planning for the Future
Planning for the future, in particular city planning, consists of preserving the community, sustaining the community and ensuring the community has a future. An ideal way to meet the needs of a community now and in the future is through the three spheres of sustainability: economic, social and environmental. While…
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