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Memorial Day Weekend: Remembering and Honoring Our Fallen Men and Women
Sheets flow in the wind as caring hands fasten them to clothes lines in the rural south. The cool subtle breeze that flows from warm to cold and a bit colder at night is just enough to shift the way things had been done over the past months. Kids are starting to appear in places…
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Understanding the Politics of Kids and Poverty: NC Senate Budget Proposal to Make Cuts to Pre-K Programs
Education is the key out of poverty. How then do you make cuts to pre-k programs? When do you discard associations between a good basic education with economic progress, when the economics of individual households is dependent on the investment made in an education. The adage that the poor enjoy life in lack is just…
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Summer Break: When Poor Kids No Longer Show Progress- The Academic Dilemma of Summer Break When Poor Kids Show Educational Decline and More Well-Off Kids Show Improvement
Rich or poor, every child looks toward summer with an excitement that is unparalleled. A kid from poverty or wealth has expectations about the quality of their summer that is worth interjecting in the debate around academic progress and the gaps that continue to widen. Unlike public policy notes, tweets and perspectives about how the…
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Hope is A Powerful Weapon: There is Something About the Human Spirit that Believes in the Seemingly Impossible and So We Respond to Human Needs Using Our God Given Gifts and a Difference is Made
The ability to influence the body’s psychological response to hopelessness, can be measured when the cords that bind good deeds diminish; remaining is a belief that the human condition can still be treated. Such psychological adjusting can be found in the lives of people who dare to make a difference in the lives of kids,…
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Future Economics of High Achieving Low Income Students: Prepping Rural Low-Income Kids to Apply to the Best Schools in the Nation
Low-income students with some of the top test scores are missing from some of the best schools in the nation. Many of them opt to remain in local communities because of a number of factors such as finances, and familiarity. Mounting local effort to support high-achieving students in low-income communities is the work that both…
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American Idol: Congratulations Candice Glover Another Example That Potential to Accomplish Great Things Wait In Small Rural Places in Nontradtional Vocations
Traditional jobs are just that, jobs embedded into the culture of a community and is accepted as a respectable means of earning an income. In rural communities, farming was considered such a vocation. Serving others as in a service industry like today, in exchange for respectable pay, was not seem to bear the resemblance of…
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Mobile Food Vending : Could Food Trucks As A Small Business “Niche” Influence Rural Economics In Local Communities
Rural communities looking for ways to better their local economies and improving quality of life might find food trucks or carts, as some regard them, a formidable niche. Demand, convenience, low overhead, variety, and mobility are all components of this economic opportunity needed for rural communities. Food carts are not a new phenomenon. In cities…