Teachers’ Lounge - Those Kids
Prakken Publications
ED031214
$2.95
My friend and former boss Sharon
Strean (who, since her retirement
from the affluent Plymouth/
Canton Schools, has worked in a
large, impoverished urban school
district) wrote to say she disagreed
with what I seemed to conclude in
the February “Teachers’ Lounge.”
In that column, I discussed an array
of failed attempts to improve
American students’ academic
achievements. Near the end, I described
the situation described by
Helen F. Ladd, professor of public
policy and economics at Duke
University and Edward B. Fiske,
former education editor of The
New York Times, in the December
11, 2011, NYT. They wrote: “Data
from the National Assessment of
Educational Progress show that
more than 40% of the variation in
average reading scores and 46%
of the variation in average math
scores across states is associated
with variation in child poverty
rates.
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