Poorly Supported Assertions Undermine Report on ‘High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools’
Poorly Supported Assertions Undermine Report on ‘High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools’
Review of Failure Is Not an Option
Contact:
Mark Paige, (508) 910-9037, mpaige@umassd.edu William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net
URL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/akgwcur
BOULDER, CO (January 15, 2013) – A recent report attempts to identify common attributes of successful schools. But, according to a review of the report, it fails to provide sound support for its assertions, and it ignores information found in its own pages about the essential need to address student poverty if education outcomes are to improve.
The report, Failure Is Not an Option: How Principals, Teachers, Students and Parents from Ohio’s High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools Explain Their Success, was written by Carolin Hagelskamp and Christopher DiStasi and published by the organization Public Agenda.
It was reviewed for the Think Twice think tank review project by Mark Paige, a professor at the University of