Re: [arn-l] What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

Yes, social class determines test scores.  To revive an apt slogan we 
created in 1999, API = Affluent Parents Index.



At 10:53 PM 3/2/2008, you wrote:
> "...The Finns enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the  world..."
>
> This says volumes.  Didn't a recent UNESCO study find U.S.  poverty rate
> worse than all other nations except Mexico?
>
> Bracey (Phi Delta Kappan, Feb. 2008) notes that U.S. Asian students (9  year
> olds, probably including second language learners) outscored all 39 nations
> on the 2006 PIRLS.  He concludes that "anyone who makes statement about
> 'American schools' is speaking about an institution that doesn't 
> actually  exist."
> What makes U.S. Asian Kids So Smart?
>
> The problem is social and economic.  Education is simply the fall  guy.
>
> Marc Barlow
> Teacher/School Psychologist
> Seaside CA
>
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