Thanks. I'll try to listen later.

Post #392,648 by Another Scott 7/31/14 10:44:56 AM Reply	Thanks. I'll try to listen later. Ravich's main point, I think, is that schools don't exist in isolation. DC schools have big per-capita funding levels (supposedly over $29k per student per year according to the critics, ~ $10k per student per year according to the school district), but many of the schools are in very poor areas. Schools don't exist in isolation - they exist in their communities, and trying to "fix" them by only looking at test scores or school funding levels isn't going to work. The 3 countries mentioned don't have the same issues that inner-city US schools have (though I'm sure they have issues of their own). Great teachers make a huge difference in individual and sometimes class-level cases. But they can't fix a broken system on their own. And we shouldn't expect them to nr punish them if they don't (as some seemingly insist that we do). FWIW. Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #392,652 by drook 7/31/14 11:16:46 AM Reply	Ahh, good distinction Test scores don't correlate with school funding very well. But they do correlate with the income of the student population. -- Drew
Post #392,729 by Ashton 8/1/14 6:36:07 PM Reply	Bingo on that correlation. I do not think that the massive consequences of the dis-USA's premeditatedly-enforced acceptance of a perpetual Sub-class ... are remotely comprehended. Certainly, in public-space, every such discussion immediately aligns-by inculcated Ideology--the Worst-kind of framing! (And that habit too is embedded in most, from kid Competition-games vastly outnumbering any Cooperation-games.) Maybe that's a major ingredient of our incorrigibility? (But even if that were true: who Cares..? enough to raise the Issue until ... it is really Addressed?)

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