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« Kennedy on Immigration | Main | Political bias in the media » Monday, June 12, 2006Early Education at Home and AbroadKathleen McCartney, Harvard's new education dean, traveled to a country "with an ambitious vision for young children" where 3-year-olds can go to school and get a running start on their education. Where was she? Mexico. "The motivation for Mexican education reform is driven by high grade retention, high dropout rates, and low test scores — even when compared with children from other Latin American countries," McCartney wrote recently in Education Week. On the home front, California voters just rejected a star-studded but controversial plan to fund early education. Proposition 82 had the support of Rob Reiner and Jimmy Smits. But voters rejected the idea of dropping a 1.7 percent tax on the state's top earners, the less than 1 percent of residents who earn $400,000 or more as individuals and $800,000 or more as families. The Robin Hood approach was a tough sell. But Reiner was smart to call on opponents to help find "another way."
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