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Prof has doubts about the DSBN Academy [for the poor]
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
January 29, 2011
Pathways to Education is focused on reducing the effects of poverty by decreasing high school dropout rates and increasing access to post-secondary education It offers academic, social, financial and advocacy supports to disadvantaged youth in participating communities… “Implementing a program like Pathways would be a much better alternative to a school designed specifically for students from low-income families… I wonder whether schools like this, in the end, will produce the very inequality they were designed to fight…
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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