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Vince Breunig

Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America's Youth - 0 views

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Poverty edreform inequality

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  • What does it take to get politicians and the general public to abandon misleading ideas, such as, “Anyone who tries can pull themselves up by the bootstraps,” or that “Teachers are the most important factor in determining the achievement of our youth”? Many ordinary citizens and politicians believe these statements to be true, even though life and research informs us that such statements are usually not true.
  • till further discouraging news for those who advocate testing as a way to reform schools comes from the PISA assessments (The Program for International Student Assessment). Nations with high-stakes testing have generally gone down in scores from 2000 to 2003, and then again by 2006. Finland, on the other hand, which has no high-stakes testing, and an accountability system that relies on teacher judgment and school level professionalism much more than tests, has shown growth over these three PISA administrations (Sahlberg, 2011).
  • Now, in the USA, our parents are a greater determiner of our income in life than either our weight or our height.
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  • what the best and wisest parents want for their children should be what we want for all children. Thus, that same kind of opportunity to catch up in school should not be denied to youth who come from poorer families
  • citizens calling for school reform without thinking about economic and social reforms are probably being foolish. The likelihood of affecting school achievement positively is more likely to be found in economic and social reforms, in the second bill of rights, than it is in NCLB, the common core of standards, early childhood and many assessments after that, value-added assessments, and the like. More than educational policies are needed to improve education.
  • I think everyone in the USA, of any political party, understands that poverty hurts families and affects student performance at the schools their children attend. But the bigger problem for our political leaders and citizens to recognize is that inequality hurts everyone in society, the wealthy and the poor alike. History teaches us that when income inequalities are large, they are tolerated by the poor for only so long. Then there is an eruption, and it is often bloody! Both logic and research suggest that economic policies that reduce income inequality throughout the United States are quite likely to improve education a lot, but even more than that, such policies might once again establish this nation as a beacon on a hill, and not merely a light that shines for some, but not for all of our citizens.
  • Vince Breunig on 22 Oct 12
     
    What does it take to get politicians and the general public to abandon misleading ideas, such as, "Anyone who tries can pull themselves up by the bootstraps," or that "Teachers are the most important factor in determining the achievement of our youth"? Many ordinary citizens and politicians believe these statements to be true, even though life and research informs us that such statements are usually not true. citizens calling for school reform without thinking about economic and social reforms are probably being foolish. The likelihood of affecting school achievement positively is more likely to be found in economic and social reforms, in the second bill of rights, than it is in NCLB, the common core of standards, early childhood and many assessments after that, value-added assessments, and the like. More than educational policies are needed to improve education.
Vince Breunig

Op ed: Education challenge for next 50 years is the achievement gap | Opinion | The Sea... - 1 views

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op ed education achievement gap boot straps

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  • Vince Breunig on 10 Sep 12
     
    For schools to prepare all children for success in life and the workforce, severe disparities in family income, coupled with inadequate education funding and low expectations can no longer be widely accepted causes of inequity in student opportunity. Lastly, we must all give a damn. The "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" mentality only works if everyone can afford boots. Everyone can contribute a little of their time and resources toward ending inequity in opportunity and expectations.
Bradford Saron

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ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

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  • Implicit in these very different proposals is the assumption that urban schools are failing because they are run badly, and that the solution lies in improving their management.
  • enacting policies that address the underlying problem of economic inequality will our country remain a place where education opens the door to opportunity and upward social mobility and the kind of society in which all Americans can take pride.
  • Bradford Saron on 12 Oct 11
     
    Most of this can be applied to rural schools too. 
Bradford Saron

Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools? | The Nation - 0 views

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redlining INEQUALITY segregation openenrollment

shared by Bradford Saron on 16 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • he racial and economic segregation that sets the stage for redlining is now firmly in place.
  • this poverty is concentrated in increasingly resegregated communities and schools.
  • The schools identified as low-performing not only serve a growing underclass of impoverished families;
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  • These disparities in school funding also lead to disparities in salaries and working conditions, which create shortages of qualified personnel in high-need districts.
  • Bradford Saron on 16 Jan 12
     
    Look at this and replace "redlining" with open enrollment. Thoughts? 
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