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Is public education in America facing a crisis?

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School districts across the U.S., faced with deep funding cuts, are being forced to consider drastic cost-cutting measures, including laying-off teachers and increasing class sizes.

At least 34 states and the District of Columbia have implemented cuts to K-12 education.
At least 43 states have implemented cuts to public colleges and universities and/or made large increases in college tuition to make up for insufficient state funding. In this edition of the show we ask people in New York City: Is public education in America facing a crisis?

Disgraced high street banks 'to be welcomed into the classroom to teach children lessons in financial education'

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They have been mired in mis-selling scandals, forced into nationalisation and accused of Libor rate fixing.  Now high street banks are to be invited into the classroom to teach children about financial education, it has been reported. Banks included Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and Lloyds would be considered for a list of groups given permission to use branded material and make presentations in English primary and secondary schools from September 2014, according to the Financial Times.

Learning about finances: More than 200 MPs are campaigning to make financial education compulsory in schools
Learning about finances: More than 200 MPs are campaigning to make financial education compulsory in schools. The proposals come amid… Continue reading →

The War on Kids

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The War on Kids is a 2009 documentary film about the American school system. The film takes a look at public school education in America and concludes that schools are not only failing to educate, but are increasingly authoritarian institutions more akin to prisons that are eroding the foundations of American democracy. Students are robbed of basic freedoms primarily due to irrational fears; they are searched, arbitrarily punished and force-fed dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. The educational mission of the public school system has been reduced from one of learning and preparation for adult citizenship to one of control and containment.

A lesson children need: Why financial literacy should be included in the National Curriculum

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In just over three weeks, a little noticed Private Member’s Bill will get its second reading in Parliament.

Drawn up by Thomas Docherty, MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, and launched last summer, his Bill calls for financial literacy to be included in the National Curriculum.

This sounds like a no-brainer. What’s not to like about giving future generations of British consumers a better grasp of how to manage their money as well as the nous to fend off slippery financial salesmen?

Not enough: Ministers have been nothing if not lukewarm, promising only a commitment to ¿look at¿ financial education as part of the review.Not enough: Ministers have been nothing if not lukewarm, promising only a commitment to ¿look at¿ financial education as part of the review. Continue reading →