Yeah, I think it’s a case of schools meeting their metrics by any means necessary, because we shouldn’t be seeing reading and math skills dipping while graduation rates go up.
“Works” is doing some heavy lifting here. It’s also ass backwards, districts with students that are failing need more funding to address the root causes of the failure, not less. Cutting funding is like blaming the electrician for the house having bad wiring.
more funding doesn’t increase performance. some of the most expensive per student funding still has the worst educational outcomes.
increased parental income is the metric that massively increasing student performance and outcomes.
but nobody wants to talk about that because that’s socialism if we start raising incomes. y
we want the electricians (the teachers) to put in good wiring while the housing i burning down, and we tell them they are assholes if they point out the fire and call losers if they get burned while trying to teach the students.
the root of educational issue is socio-economic and cultural. rich people have zero issues with their students being educated up the wazoo and often spend less per student because they live in districts that support learning and has no economic impediments to it.
More funding means more opportunities to expand free breakfast/lunch programs, tutoring support, after school programs, basically every program that has been shown to help students from low income homes costs money.
I’m not sure how the hell cutting funding from the schools of poor students is supposed to help them… go ask anyone teaching in a segregated school in the northeast how decades of funding cuts have served their students. Or examine any study that’s come out in the past 20 years about how NCLB has been an utter failure.
You don’t have to take the SATs unless you’re trying for college. You’re not necessarily seeing reading and math skills drop. You’re seeing more kids who wouldn’t have taken the SATs doing so. You’re sampling from a more complete population, not just the top 75%.
(And yeah I’m fully ignoring the postCOVID brain drain. That’s going to be a shadow in test scores for years.)
Yeah, I think it’s a case of schools meeting their metrics by any means necessary, because we shouldn’t be seeing reading and math skills dipping while graduation rates go up.
The policy works because it’s tied to funding. If your school doesn’t graduate 90% of it’s students, it gets less federal/state money.
“Works” is doing some heavy lifting here. It’s also ass backwards, districts with students that are failing need more funding to address the root causes of the failure, not less. Cutting funding is like blaming the electrician for the house having bad wiring.
more funding doesn’t increase performance. some of the most expensive per student funding still has the worst educational outcomes.
increased parental income is the metric that massively increasing student performance and outcomes.
but nobody wants to talk about that because that’s socialism if we start raising incomes. y
we want the electricians (the teachers) to put in good wiring while the housing i burning down, and we tell them they are assholes if they point out the fire and call losers if they get burned while trying to teach the students.
the root of educational issue is socio-economic and cultural. rich people have zero issues with their students being educated up the wazoo and often spend less per student because they live in districts that support learning and has no economic impediments to it.
More funding means more opportunities to expand free breakfast/lunch programs, tutoring support, after school programs, basically every program that has been shown to help students from low income homes costs money.
I’m not sure how the hell cutting funding from the schools of poor students is supposed to help them… go ask anyone teaching in a segregated school in the northeast how decades of funding cuts have served their students. Or examine any study that’s come out in the past 20 years about how NCLB has been an utter failure.
You don’t have to take the SATs unless you’re trying for college. You’re not necessarily seeing reading and math skills drop. You’re seeing more kids who wouldn’t have taken the SATs doing so. You’re sampling from a more complete population, not just the top 75%.
(And yeah I’m fully ignoring the postCOVID brain drain. That’s going to be a shadow in test scores for years.)