Tuesday, May 01, 2007
No child left behind
It's very much a reality...in Cuba:
When UNESCO gave math and language tests to third- and fourth-graders in 13 Latin American countries, researchers were stunned to find that pupils in Cuba's lowest-income schools outperformed most upper-middle-class students in the rest of the region.The article enumerates the reasons why this is true, but the bottom line is a government that devotes its resources to the needs of its people. All its people. With a special priority to its children.
