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| | | | | The racial and ethnic composition of the adopted child population in the U.S. has changed dramatically in less than a generation. This IFS research brief compares adopted children in two large national studies of kindergarten students conducted a decade apart by the federal Department of Education1. The proportion of adopted kindergartners being raised by a mother of a different race or ethnic group rose by 50% between 1999 and 2011. The proportion of adoptees with Asian backgrounds nearly tripled over t... | |
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| | | | | What this report finds: The pandemic exacerbated a preexisting and long-standing shortage of teachers. The shortage is particularly acute for certain subject areas and in some geographic locations. It is especially severe in schools with high shares of students of color or students from low-income families. The shortage is not a function of an inadequate number of qualified teachers in the U.S. economy. Simply, there are too few qualified teachers willing to work at current compensation levels given the ... | |
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| | | | | Income levels for Americans vary across geography, race, and gender. | |
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| | | The Kansas state social studies standards are designed to "prepare students to be informed, thoughtful, engaged citizens as they enrich their communities, state, nation, world, and themselves." Different benchmarks under each of the standards require that students make connections between the past and contemporary issues. The recent Kansans Can Vision developed by the Department of... | ||