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Schools Matter: Michelle Newsum: Reclaiming Reform

Schools Matter: Michelle Newsum: Reclaiming Reform:

Michelle Newsum: Reclaiming Reform

Reclaiming Reform
By Michelle Newsum

Published in the Advocate, December, 2011, p. 13
advocate@coosdems.org


Our schools have been labeled as failing by people who have never stepped foot in them.The favorite weapon of these 'reformers' is test scores.So let's take a closer look at the data:

Based on the PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study)

* American kids in schools with less than 10% poverty far outscore all