A Demonstrable Solution to the Poverty Deficit in Education

The Education Wars Part IX

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin Billions and billions of dollars are thrown away (if not used to terrorize children) because we fail as a society in the simple task of differentiating between primary and secondary variables. It sometimes feels as if there is no will to do anything at all the right way in education. From TechCrunch: In 2014 the Gates Foundation backed InnovateNYC so it could work with Johns Hopkins University to figure out a better way to measure the efficacy of new technology in the classroom. One of the companies that InnovateNYC is…

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