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Religious faith and a stable family are the real sources of help for poorly performing students

City schools are a perennial topic of conversation.   What can be done to help poor districts?   What helps students who are struggling?  So much talk and money is spent on things which don’t really make a difference because political correctness keeps us from endorsing what really does make a difference – religious faith and stable family structure.  This study should be labeled as a landmark study.   It should be required reading for politicians overseeing schools and for school officials.    

http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-faith-family-most-important-to-reduce-race-based-achievement-gap-71130/

 

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Faith Heritage Pastors’ Day

Yesterday I ate lunch with Ben Loveland and his friends, all first grade boys, at Faith Heritage school on Midland Ave.   Ben and his brother, Connor and his sister, Hannah, invited me to come to Pastors’ day for a visit.    I ate excellent pizza supreme and listened to the boys trying to guess each other’s middle names.    I haven’t been in the middle of such happy overlapping boys’ talk in a while.   Ben, you and your friends put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.