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It’s the poverty, stupid: The education reform debate is misdirected.
- 09-01-2010
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By Roger Bybee/In These Times
With America’s public schools struggling to survive slashed budgets and unequal funding, school reform is back on the national agenda—but will the new model of market-based “reform” promote greater educational quality? Already, schools in low-income areas see abysmally low achievement levels. In many cities, less than half of students graduate from high school. To combat the crisis of low achievement, the Obama administration, led by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, cobbled together a group of political and corporate powerbrokers, including Bill Gates, to spearhead education reform. Their efforts have been vigorously applauded by major media from the New York Times to the Washington Post to Newsweek. In her recent book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Undermine Education, Diane Ravitch, education historian and former assistant secretary of education under George H.W. Bush, takes the education reform establishment to task. (more…)
Also: Can Our Schools Run on Duncan?, In These Times
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