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Christopher Walters, an assistant professor of economics at UC Berkeley who conducted research on patterns of selection into Boston charter schools, said parenting and household “advantages” may contribute to high-achieving students choosing charter schools instead of district schools, more so than low-achieving students.
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A policy brief recently published by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment found children enrolled in Head Start benefit academically both in the short term and, to a lesser extent, the long term, refuting earlier research to the contrary.
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Back when she was working in Berkeley, Chauncy Taylor would sometimes sleep in her car to accommodate long, late hours that her job demanded. After she was laid off and moved to another city, she had to borrow $200 from her sister in Florida one month to help pay rent.
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