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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Over a lifetime, a dual-headed household with bachelor’s degrees and $53,000 in college debt loses $208,000 in lifetime wealth — nearly four times the amount borrowed, according to a 2013 brief by Demos, a left-leaning policy organization. Moureen’s economic ascent, however, may also depend on geography.

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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

ED Surge

(Younger children in the school take courses using more-traditional online tools, including Microsoft Teams.) She’s a champion of a model of education that favors students reading classical texts and otherwise focusing on the traditional canons of arts, literature and culture. What did the VR classroom look like?