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=From Wells Fargo Daily Advantage, April 2012:=

==="Investing in a child's future is quickly succumbing to the iron law of diminishing returns. According to Annamaria Andriotis at SmartMoney, a growing number of parents are beginning to take out private student loans to finance their children's precollege education, starting all the way back in kindergarten. The goal in many cases is to ensure their kids get a good enough education that gets them into an elite school. But then, the parents are basically taking out a lot of loans now to make sure they can take out even more expensive loans when their kids turn 18 and get into that pricey school. Given that it's perfectly possible to stay in school into one's 30s, we're approaching the point where nearly 30 years of loans kindergarten to Ph.D. will be needed as an investment in a 30-year working life (assuming retirement in the mid-60s)." ===

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=New York Times Op-Ed: "The Unaddressed Link Between Poverty and Education"=





=//From the Winter 2011 issue of [|Dissent Magazine]...//= =//and on a related note, Joanne Barkan on MSNBC...//=

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//[|Can a School Lunch Overhaul Beat Junk Food?]// (September, 2010)
===President Obama is expected to sign a $4.5 billion grant to lunchesin public schools. But can revamped lunchroom and healthier menus be enough to draw kids out of nearby fast food chains? ===