{"id":11945,"date":"2009-03-10T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2009-03-10T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T18:43:05","slug":"great-lakes-center-for-education-research-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=11945","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes Center For Education Research And Practice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>out with a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatlakescenter.org\/docs\/Policy_Briefs\/Berliner_NonSchool.pdf\" title=\"greatlakescenter.org\">report deals<\/a> with out-of-school factors that need to be dealt with in order to help improve the achievement gap. Some of the factors they cite are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce the rate of low birth weight children among African Americans<\/li>\n<li>Reduce drug and alcohol abuse\t<\/li>\n<li>Reduce the rates of family violence in low-income households<\/li>\n<li>Insure that no one suffers from food insecurity<\/li>\n<li>Provide summer programs for the poor to reduce summer losses in their academic achievement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do have to fully agree with them on this.  You can talk about spending on schools all you want, but unless you tackle the out-of-school problems you will never fully close the academic gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>out with a new report. The report deals with out-of-school factors that need to be dealt with in order to help improve the achievement gap. Some of the factors they cite are: Reduce the rate of low birth weight children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=11945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11946,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions\/11946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}