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• W588120758 abstract "IT'S EASY TO TELL when someone is in grip of a Big Idea That Explains Everything. Tunnel vision sets in; every analysis, whatever topic, becomes an occasion for grand theory to appear. Evidence is read and supplied selectively, in such a way that theory remains unscathed. Skepticism is deployed selectively as well. Findings that comport with Big Idea are held to a relaxed standard, while work of critics is subjected to withering scrutiny. Richard Rothstein, author of New York Times's widely read Lessons column, a weekly commentary on education issues, frequently exhibits these symptoms. His Big Idea is that economic forces, especially inequality and poverty, largely determine outcome of American social projects--including attempts at education reform. effect of this obsession is two-fold. First, his writings display a factual carelessness, suggesting that details hardly matter if one possesses a higher truth. Second, nearly every engagement with issues of schooling, testing, standards, and teaching becomes an occasion to reassert primacy of economic factor. Rothstein believes that most contemporary criticism of public schools is misplaced. main problems lie not with schools, he claims, but with injustices associated with American economic system. It isn't a lack of competition in public school system, antiquated hiring and compensation systems, or a dearth of solid research on educational methods that depresses student achievement; it's an economic system that allows for large differences in income and wealth. As a result, to Rothstein's mind, education reform won't be effective without far broader social reforms. Sky Isn't Falling Rothstein is committed to view that no crisis exists in American education, that all critics are merely Cassandras trying to scare public into accepting their pet reforms. His statistical gymnastics are used most often in service of defending current school practices against most reform proposals, usually by denying need for reform in first place. Thus Rothstein's explanation for falling SAT scores is not a decline in education quality, but an increase in number and diversity of test takers. Says Rothstein, in an August 2000 column: Interpreting SAT is more complex than it seems. SAT trends would reflect school quality changes only if every 18-year-old took test. Not all do, Average scores are affected by who takes SAT. If only brightest seniors take it, averages are higher. If more lower-ranked seniors aspire to college and take test, this could indicate better performance by schools, but still depress average. claim that slipping scores result from a changed demographic (and hence could even be good news) has surfaced repeatedly in writings of education commentators such as Gerald Bracey, but it is demonstrably false. Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson summarized matter in a 1994 column by noting: The change in student population preceded drop in test scores. Between 1951 and 1963, number of test takers went from 81,000 to nearly 1 million; test scores rose slightly' Moreover, percentage of test takers remained relatively constant between 1972 and 1984 (see Figure 1). There were still a million test takers in 1985, first year in which test scores showed a small uptick after 19 years of decline. Scores have been flat or slightly improved since then, with math scores returning to their levels of 30 years ago, but failing to reach their mid-1960s apex. Changes in composition of test-raking pool don't explain decline in test scores either. Studies by Educational Testing Service and others have showed, in words of Robert Samuelson, that the main declines occurred among whites and could not be explained by changes in student's gender, economic class, or parental education. …" @default.
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• W588120758 title "Waiting for Utopia: The New York Times Education Columnist Believes in Education Reform. He Just Doesn't Think It Has Much to Do with Schools. (Check the Facts)" @default.
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