NYT's reports on the rich educating their kids at a higher level.
Where is public education system in all of this realization?
Socio-economic factors are now stronger than race in determining
educational performance.
So the rich are turning to better schools often private. What
does this say about the public school system?
If the public educational system worked well over all of these years,
what would have been the impact on our income and its distribution?
It is of course of grave concern that one of the largest
contributors to candidates, the Teacher Unions, are in turn the most
supportive of status quo education and also of the redistribution
policies. The irony is very vivid.
A gap in standardized scores has reached 40 points
between some rich and some poor students.
Links:
Forces Catalog: driving forces
on income distribution.
It makes perfect sense, but the NYT’s pursues only the Obama agenda
and not the full and obvious implications of the rich will insure their
kids will be well educated.
NYT's article:
Link
What is missing is that the middle and
lower classes had put their trust in the public education system for the
past 30 years to provide a competitive educational experience for their
children. It has not done so.
Even the local public school in Woodside, grades 1 through 8, has
been coopted by the well-to-do residents to operate more like a private
school. The key issue in all of this is the lack of performance of
public schools and what to do about it..
Socio-economic factors are now stronger than race in determining
educational performance:
Link
Professor Reardon is the author of a study that found that the gap
in standardized test scores between affluent and low-income students had
grown by about 40 percent since the 1960s, and is now double the testing
gap between blacks and whites.
In another study, by researchers from the University of Michigan,
the imbalance between rich and poor children in college completion — the
single most important predictor of success in the work force — has grown
by about 50 percent since the late 1980s.
The changes are tectonic, a result of social and economic processes
unfolding over many decades. The data from most of these studies end in
2007 and 2008, before the recession’s full impact was felt. Researchers
said that based on experiences during past recessions, the recent
downturn was likely to have aggravated the trend.
The imbalance between rich and poor children in college completion — the single
most important
predictor of success in the work force — has grown by about 50 percent since the late 1980s