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From left: School board member Tom Tate; Swann President Deacon Jones; Swann board member and author of "Education and Poverty" paper Mickey Aberman; WFAE's Mike Collins; and Mecklenburg Family Court Judge Regan Miller.
'Charlotte Talks' about Swann paper on schools
Aug. 20, 2008
If children haven't mastered the basic skills for learning by middle school, they're lost, said the judge.
If children haven't mastered many of those basic skills even before they arrive at elementary school, they're lost, said the school board member.
WFAE's Mike Collins Thursday led a four-member panel through a discussion of Mickey Aberman's paper, "Education and Poverty in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools," on the WFAE radio program "Charlotte Talks." Collins focused on the paper's suggestion that investing more in education will curb exploding costs for incarceration.
To downloadAberman's paper, see below.
For more information about Charlotte Talks, see the WFAE website.
Here are a few audio excerpts from the Charlotte Talks discussion.
Aug. 20, 2008
Audio excerpts from Charlotte Talks session
Mickey Aberman on
education as an investment
Deacon Jones: Are our expectations high enough?
Deacon Jones: Are the children at the back of the room really given access to an education?