1-17-15: “We have to give them quality teachers, small class sizes, up-to-date equipment. But in addition, if we’re serious, we have to do things that overcome the damages of poverty. We have to meet their health needs, their mental health needs, after-school programs, summer programs, parent engagement, early-childhood services. These are the so- called wraparound services. Some people think of them as add-ons. They’re not. They’re imperative.”
– Michael Rebell, executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Columbia University, quoted in the Washington Post or here on the occasion of the publication of “Research Report Update: A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation” or here by the Southern Education Foundation