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CAT Tracks for October 17, 2013
LOW INCOME STUDENTS |
Have become the majority in 17 states...
...a decade ago, it was four.
However, allegedly educated people (and the leaders of the "education reform movement") are still in denial.
Glaring example:
"Lots of folks say we need to change this paradigm, but as a country, we’re not focusing on the issue,” said Bounds, who was previously Mississippi’s state school superintendent.
From the Washington Post
Study: Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West
No, Mr. Bounds, it's not an education issue, it's an income issue!
As indicated earlier in the article:
It's time for the ostriches to pull their heads out of their, uh, the sand.
We don't have a nation of "bad teachers", we have a nation of unappreciated, unsupported, heroic teachers fighting "the unbeatable foe"...
...every damn day they go to school, and being damned for doing so.
POSTSCRIPT:
After posting this article, I ventured over to the Valerie Strauss Blog (The Answer Sheet) and found further confirmation of the existence of ostriches...freaking Democratic ostriches...
From the Washington Post
The debt deal’s gift to Teach For America (yes, TFA)
Bears repeating:
Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right...
...here am I, stuck in the middle with you.
FOOTNOTE:
And, as if clowns and jokers weren't enough...
From CNN
Hank Bounds, the Mississippi commissioner of higher education, said the country needs to figure out how to educate the growing classes of poor students and reverse the trend.
"When you break down the various test scores, you find the high-income kids, high-achievers are holding their own and more," Rebell said. "It’s when you start getting down to schools with a majority of low-income kids that you get astoundingly low scores. Our real problem regarding educational outcomes is not the U.S. overall, it’s the growing low-income population."