[EDLING:390] Toronto: Missing piece of poverty picture

[Francis Hult]

TheStar.com

 

Missing piece of poverty picture

 

The provincial election has spawned a lot of talk about education. The Ontario Social Planning Network wants voters to make child poverty a ballot question too. 

 

But almost nobody is talking about where those issues intersect in the lives of parents whose language or literacy barriers keep their children stuck in the poverty trap. 

 

Full story:

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/260084

 
 
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Francis M. Hult, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
University of Texas at San Antonio
 
Web: http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/
 
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