Re: rothstein: Whose Problem is Poverty?

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A Nation at Risk said that Americans have come to expect our schools 
and colleges "to provide solutions to personal, social, and political 
problems that the home and other institutions either will not or cannot 
resolve.."  That said, better schools are a worthy end in themselves, 
no matter the degree of economic advantage or disadvantage of the 
children

Art

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In Ed Leadership - April - a good read, clear argument from Rothstein 
on the
need to look at both schools and other social factors - and why looking 
only at
schools won't solve educational problems. Monty

Whose Problem Is Poverty?
According to author Richard Rothstein, if you send two groups of 
students to
equally high-quality schools, the group with greater socioeconomic 
disadvantage
will necessarily have lower average achievement than the more fortunate 
group.
The latest Educational Leadership examines why this is so, as well as 
how
acknowledging the effects of socioeconomic disparities on student 
learning is a
vital step to closing the achievement gap. Read more 
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.c00a836e7622024fb85516f762108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=818d37ec925d82800173fc1062108a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_818d37ec925d82800173fc1062108a0c_viewID=article_view&javax.portlet.prp_818d37ec925d82800173fc1062108a0c_journalmoid=4284eb69f6a29110VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.prp_818d37ec925d82800173fc1062108a0c_articlemoid=4ba4eb69f6a29110VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=token&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=token

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