Why Education Innovation Tends to Crash and Burn - 0 views
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Donald Luck on 05 Dec 11Why do small scale innovations often crash and burn when more widely implemented.
Ravitch noted that on a recent international test, the Program for International Student Assessment, “American schools in which fewer than 10% of the students were poor outperformed the schools of Finland, Japan and Korea. Even when as many as 25% of the students were poor, American schools performed as well as the top-scoring nations. As the proportion of poor students rises, the scores of U.S. schools drop.”