Integration Less Favored by Parents Over Standards and Discipline
A Public Agenda survey of black and white parents finds strong support for high standards and strict discipline over school integration. Parents fear integration brings risks to safety and school environments, while prioritizing weapons, drugs, and gangs free schools and basics like reading, writing and arithmetic. Black parents also favor teaching standard English, with few seeing test bias in standard tests.
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Iowa Tops State List As Best Place To Raise Children
The Children's Right Council ranks Iowa first among states for child welfare citing community, belonging and factors like divorce, crime, graduation rates and infant mortality. Minnesota New Hampshire Nebraska and Massachusetts also make the top ten while North Dakota falls from first to sixth. Tenessee appears among the worst.
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States list top places for kids ranks many southern states last
Washington, D.C. ranked last for the second year in a row in a study. Melanie Woodrow, a council spokeswoman, notes urban or southern states show more violence. She urges parents to focus on improving their child’s life rather than moving. Arizona advocate Carol Kamin calls for more government funding for child programs over prisons.
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