PISA: It's Poverty Not Stupid
Mel Riddile,
The Principal Difference,
Dec 23, 2010
Detailed analysis. Same conclusion. "To Secretary Duncan, poverty is not an issue that educators must address. At least he won't admit it in public.... Our education leaders don't trust us enough to tell us the truth. The problem is that we will never solve a problem that our leaders refuse to admit even exists. The comparison of PISA scores by poverty clearly identifies our strengths and challenges as a nation. Our schools with less than 50% poverty are some of the best in the world. Our extremely high-poverty schools, with over 50% poverty, are among the poorest performing internationally... by not acknowledging poverty as a challenge to be overcome, Duncan is forgetting about our disadvantaged students."
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