Why almost all school reform efforts have failed
Achievement gap data for D.C. Public Schools
Why is it that wave after wave of school reform doesn’t seem to make much of a dent in the problems that they are designed to address? David C. Berliner of Arizona State University offers an answerin this new essay entitled “Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America’s Youth,” which was just published in the Teachers College Record at Columbia University.
Berliner is Regents’ Professor Emeritus in The Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona State University and he is a renowed researcher on educational policy and the study of teaching. He has written for this blog in the past; posts include “Why giving standardized tests to young children is ‘really dumb’ and Why rising test scores may not mean increased learning” and “Poverty, student achievement and the Harlem Children’s Zone.
Here’s a brief description that appears at the top of the new essay, which you can