Thursday, April 12, 2012

RheeFirst! » Right-wing corporate reformers cheat our students

RheeFirst! » Right-wing corporate reformers cheat our students:


Right-wing corporate reformers cheat our students

Written by Gary Rubinstein for CNN. Read the entire article here.
Another big cheat is the amount of money and power certain self-dubbed “education reformers” have obtained by claiming, quite confidently, though with no actual proof, they “know” what will improve education in this country. …
Washington is another place where reformers claim success, yet it continues to have the largest achievement gap between black and white students in the country. According to the most recent Nation’s Report Card Trial Urban District Assessment, D.C.’s 64 point gap for fourth grade reading is more than double the national average for other big cities.