Education Week: Philanthropists Are Losing Interest in K-12 “Reform” Due to Lack of Results
Christina Samuels of Education Week reports that philanthropists continue to pour a large percentage of their donations into education, but are losing interest in K-12 due to the poor record of their efforts to “reform” the schools.
ironically, this is good news because the philanthropic money was used to impose “reforms” that disrupted schools, ranked students based on their test scores, and demoralized teachers.
Schools that serve the neediest children definitely need more money but not the kind that is tied to test scores, stigmatizing students and teachers, or the kind that funds charter schools to drain resources from public schools, leaving them with less money to educate the neediest children.
Samuels reports that a growing number of grant makers to early childhood education are looking to help children before they start school, and giving money to issues such as “education and mental health, education and criminal justice, education and the arts.”
In 2010, I visited Denver and met with about 60 of the city’s civic leaders. I was supposed to debate State CONTINUE READING: Education Week: Philanthropists Are Losing Interest in K-12 “Reform” Due to Lack of Results | Diane Ravitch's blog