In comparison, the average skills of German students have improved over the last years, but strong disadvantages of children who grow up in educationally disadvantaged families are still evident (Müller and Ehmke 2013).
There's a sharp divide between what schools and teachers are being "forced" to do (and increasingly there is a sense of it being forced) and the ways they choose to grow their schools educationally.
The educationally rich get educationally richer; dysfunctional districts slide into irrecoverable brokenness.
Ms. Stevenson has read the research suggesting that children go further educationally if they grow up surrounded by books.
Given that it can take a year or two for hair dye to grow out, one can imagine a room full of lonely, educationally malnourished children, sitting ennui-ridden for months on end with little else to do other than willing their hair to grow faster.
Mr. Pillai, 52, who came to this country from Kerala 26 years ago, said: "The community is growing, growing, growing economically, educationally and socially too.
It is educationally and nutritionally important, Lanou says, when Michelle Obama tells schoolchildren they have the power to grow their own food and shows them its nutritional value.
What had started as a special STEM program became recognized as educationally superior and grew in popularity and size.
Though I worked to limit technology's use when my daughter was small (no baby chairs with iPad holders were in my home!), I did let her "fingerpaint" on iPad before she turned one, and introduced a small selection of educationally focused toddler apps as she grew older.
New ties were established with the private and industrial sectors, and a growing partnership developed with federal and state governments in creating programs for the economically and educationally disadvantaged.
When politicians of either party invoke Brown, they tend to do so in a vague, metaphorical way to reference the achievement gap, rather than to confront the growing body of evidence that concentrating low-income students in schools separately from middle-class students is educationally damaging.
