Sentences with phrase «scores education crisis»

America's Mediocre Test Scores Education crisis or poverty crisis?

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Michael Rebell and Jessica Wolff at Columbia University's Teachers College argue that middling test scores reflect a «poverty crisis» in the United States, not an «education crisis.»

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

Middling test scores, they say, are a poverty crisis, not an education one.

Despite an economic crisis that has resulted in the massive defunding of public education, schools are expected to raise test scores.

The administration's expansionist strategy is what landed Cooper Union in a cultural and financial crisis to begin with, and their worldview in which standardized - test scores and socioeconomic status quotas are more important than the advancement of knowledge, community, and equality are what make them incapable of understanding the value of free education.