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The study’s results strongly suggest that if Arkansas’ education levels were equal to the national levels, approximately 69% of the gap between Arkansas’ per capita income and the national average would be eliminated.
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| State Profiles present key data about each state's student and school population and its NAEP testing history and results. The profiles provide easy access to all NAEP data for participating states and links to the most recent state report cards for all available subjects. |
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| The Algebra Project (AP) is a national mathematics literacy effort aimed at helping low income students and students of color -- particularly African American students -- successfully achieve mathematical skills that are a prerequisite for full citizenship in the Information Age. |
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| ABEA works to promote business involvement in schools and to encourage academic achievement among students. ABEA's primary program for students and communities is called Arkansas Scholars. |
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| The Arkansas Policy Foundation examines state trends in light of their principles of tax policy. Arkansas would benefit from comprehensive, pro-growth reform; taxes and rates do matter to entrepreneurs; dynamic scoring of tax changes and effects provides benefits. In education, the Foundation seeks intellectual honesty and complete openness in reporting the lack of academic progress in Arkansas' school system. The Foundation also encourages citizenship. |
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| The Arkansas Public Policy Panel is a non-profit organization that has focused on citizen involvement in public policy since 1989. Originally organized as the Panel of American Women in 1963, the group addressed issues of racial, ethnic and religious prejudice throughout the sixties and seventies. In the 1980s the Panel broadened its work to include a variety of public policy issues affecting low income and minority citizens and in 1989 the Panel changed its name to reflect that work. |
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| Little Rock, ACORN's oldest city, has developed a community base and a track record for taking on problems in the public schools. ACORN groups have fought and won maintenance issues -- from textbooks to sidewalks. Much of its work is centered on accountability and equity. ACORN has fought attempts to close schools in low income neighborhoods, and district basis elections (to reflect the city's communities.) In 1997, Little Rock ACORN coalesced with Classroom Teachers Association to begin the current fight to organize parents and teachers to work for reform of the junior high schools. |
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| The Public Education Foundation of Little Rock, composed of the community's business, civic, and educational leaders, was established in May 2002 at the invitation of the Little Rock Public School District, in an effort to enrich and improve student achievement in public schools. |
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