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stanley cup omanelli/Getty Images.Jerome Kagan is one of the pioneers of developmental child psychology. But I interviewed him a few weeks ago with an economic motivation. PBS NewsHour has begun to explore a virtual reality project designed to help close America deeply troubling and widening economic gap between those in the bottom rungs of the income and wealth ladder and those at the top. I explored this in 2011 when I visited Sesame Street, reporting on the effectiveness of the marshmallow test. The idea: to help kids learn to delay gratification and learn how to save, for example. The general
stanley cup aim: to do better in school, do better in life.Jerome Kagan was skeptical, however of any short-term technology or test that claims it can close the achievement and economi
stanley cup c gap. He thinks it will take a much more significant investment.Jerome Kagan: The income inequality gap keeps on increasing. Joseph Stiglitz, [a Nobel laureate economist], said in [an editorial in The New York Times]
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes/2013/02/16/equal-opportunity-our-national-myth/ that for a child born into the lower fifth of the income distribution of his family, the odds are only 50 percent that he or she will ever rise out of that [lower] fifth. That all. Just to rise up to the next fifth. That terrible and the achievement gap in school is getting worse.Paul Solman: The achievement gap between richer and poorer Related Content:It Zglz Judy s Notebook: We Are Overdue to Create a More Humane Work Model
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?A year after failing to meet its enlistment goal for the first time in 13 years, the U.S. Army is now on track to meet a lower 2019 target after revamping its recruitment effort.Army leaders tell The Associated Press that they expect to sign up more than 68,000 active duty soldiers for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, as the largest branch of the U.S. military increasingly turns to social media and other new online methods to find potential recruits.Last year, the Army brought in about 70,000 new active duty recruits, well below the 76,500
stanley cup it needed amid low unemployment and tough competition from higher-paying civilian companies. Meeting the lower 2019 figure is considered a victory for a service that has struggled to compete for young people who are less familiar with the military and that was criticized last year for using more bad conduct waivers and other waivers to meet enlistment goals. We ;re trying to make sure that the end
stanley cup strength we have is high quality. We ;re smoothing out the Army growth, Gen. James McConville, chief of staff of the Army, said in an AP interview. What we want to do is have modest growth over the next couple of years. And we ;re trying to make sure that the end strength we have is high quality.Army leaders dispute the idea that they lowered the goal to help meet expectations. Instead, they said they plan to gradual
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