Have you ever asked yourself why the US public education system (K-12) is founded on local community level school districts funding??

In this system, the best educational schools and funds for those schools' resources (breadth and depth of the curricula, teacher quality, & class size) occur in the local school districts with the ...

Of High Scoring Students (in 2005): Rates of Pursuit of College Degree by Income Levels

30% - Low Income 

50% - Middle Income

75% - High Income

This is only for the high scoring students... thus doesn't include the "its their own fault" bullshit applied by conservatives to lower income students not applying themselves academically....

I was looking at 8th grade national proficiency scores in math for non-english language learners only, over the annual periods 2011 to 2005.  I used 8th grade since very few drop-outs occur by that age hence it should come closer to capturing the general 8th grade population without the least capable having dropped out or ...

I have previously postulated that IF all voters were to take classes to realistically appraise real economic consequence of voting choices --- candidates for federal office-holders, congressional bills, etc., that they would overwhelming vote in their own best interests, and that this would forever tilt the political and economic ...