Fact-Challenged Policy. Policy Memorandum #182

Autor/in	Rothstein, Richard
Institution	Economic Policy Institute
Titel	Fact-Challenged Policy. Policy Memorandum #182
Quelle	(2011), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; College Graduates; Costs; Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education; School Restructuring; Public Schools; Teacher Effectiveness; Academic Achievement; Educational Policy; Public Policy; Racial Differences; Grade 4; Grade 8; Reading Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Misconceptions; National Assessment of Educational Progress + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Cost; Kosten; Bildungsreform; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Schulleistung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Öffentliche Ordnung; Rassenunterschied; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Leseleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Missverständnis
Abstract	This paper is a response on the topic of school reform efforts being promoted by Bill Gates and other prominent education policy advocates. Last week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates published an op-ed in the Washington Post, "How Teacher Development could Revolutionize our Schools," proposing that American public schools should do a better job of evaluating the effectiveness of teachers, a goal with which none can disagree. But his specific prescriptions, and the urgency he attaches to them, are based on the misrepresentation of one fact, the misinterpretation of another and the demagogic presentation of a third. It is remarkable that someone associated with technology and progress should have such a careless disregard for accuracy when it comes to the education policy in which he is now so deeply involved. Gates' most important factual claim is that "over the past four decades, the per-student cost of running our K-12 schools has more than doubled, while our student achievement has remained virtually flat." And, he adds, "spending has climbed, but our percentage of college graduates has dropped compared with other countries." In this paper, the author examines these factual claims. (Contains 1 table and 3 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10