Public schools aren't failing | CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views
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In fact, both show that American public school children are doing remarkably well.
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For example, the NCES report shows that in schools with less than 25 percent poverty rates, American children scored higher in reading than any other children in the world. In. The. World.
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The takeaway is simple. Our middle-class and wealthy public school children are thriving. Poor children are struggling, not because their schools are failing but because they come to school with all the well-documented handicaps that poverty imposes – poor prenatal care, developmental delays, hunger, illness, homelessness, emotional and mental illnesses, and so on.
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public school children outscored their private school counterparts, and nationally, charters are outperformed by traditional schools the majority of the time.
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research is clear that money spent addressing the issues of child poverty are the most effective way to move test scores up
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“Nobody understands the challenges and shortcomings of American schools better than the people who have dedicated their lives to them.” Yet educators are rarely asked for their expertise.
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If policy makers were to listen to educators – and to students and parents – they would hear that the real crisis in public education is the loss of our collective commitment to the common good.