Until about 10 years ago, one consolation about PISA student test scores was the very best American students did pretty well. The best kids in Massachusetts were up there with Singapore and South Korea. No longer true. Even our best students are no longer at the very top. Theyre doing OK. But theyre not up there with Shanghai, Singapore, and South Korea. The simple difference if you were to look at all these other countries, particularly the good ones, in those countries they spend more on poor kids, on kids who are disadvantaged, on the theory theyre the ones who need the most help. Our system, as you know, is funded by property taxes. So we do the opposite. We tend to spend lots of money in affluent suburbs, we spend relatively less money in inner city places. And that means those kids, those disadvantaged kids really never have a chance to catch up. globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn/2013/12/04/zakaria-u-s-must-spend-more-on-education-for-poorer-children/
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:48:21 +0000
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