Excerpt: There is a discourse of deficiency around students-what they can't do, how "ill prepared" they are-that gets aired at nearly every faculty meeting. We read it in op-eds online. We hear it in state legislatures and in copier rooms. It is the air we breathe, especially if we teach in community colleges. Certain populations of students are considered more deficient than others. These populations are partitioned by institution type and placement level, rather than by race or class. Community college students and students who have landed in developmental classes are considered the most deficient of all. We blame the high schools they came from and, sometimes implicitly, we blame them.
Posted by Saga Briggs on Sunday, July 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment Last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was publicly accused of "killing students' joy for learning." The OECD publishes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is an assessment that allows educational performances to be examined on a common measure across 34 countries.