Education work(Answer Questions)

Growing residential segregation by social class is a key underlying cause of differences in kids’ educational experience. Residential segregation is deeply rooted in growing income inequality, in people's desire to live around people like themselves and in the financial equity that middle class Americans have embodied in their homes

Publicly subsidized mixed income housing is one potential solution that has been tried. Poor kids moved to better schools generally do better.

An alternative to moving poor kids to better schools is to invest much more money in their existing schools so as to improve their quality. Most fundamentally, school systems need to put higher quality teachers in poor schools under conditions in which they can actually teach and not just keep order. Our goal has to be to equalize results not just funding.

One important objective of additional funding for poor schools is to recruit better trained, more experienced, and more capable teachers. Retention of teachers - provide funding for them.

School reform: Expanding school hours to offer more extracurricular and enrichment opportunities, social and health services in schools serving poor children (community schools)

Community college funding: advantages of community college for nontraditional students are clear - open enrollment, local access, part time and low costs. Community colleges are asked to do many things with little funding and in recent years funding has been cut back.