Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Everyone in American education hears the relentless and consistent criticism of our schools: Compared to schools in other nations, we come up short. But the evidence on which that judgment rests is narrow and very thin. A January study released by the Horace Mann League and the National Superintendents Roundtable, "School Performance in Context: The Iceberg Effect," challenges the practice of ranking nations by educational test scores and questions conventional wisdom that the U.S. educational system has fallen badly behind school systems abroad.The study compared six dimensions related to student performance--equity, social stress, support for families, support for schools, student outcomes, and system outcomes--in the G-7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) plus Finland and China. They then examined 24 "indicators" ... |
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