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Saturday, December 25, 2010

It's not teachers, it's poverty

"There are three kinds of lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics."--Mark Twain

There has been much talk about how the United States is falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to education, however when you factor out poverty something where sadly we are one of the leaders in the world with over 20% of our children living in it, we do a lot better. Teacher quality is just a drop in the bucket of education problems.

Follow the link to the article to learn more. -cpg

http://nasspblogs.org/principaldifference/2010/12/pisa_its_poverty_not_stupid_1.html

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