[regional_school] Why?

From: "William Cala" <wcala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <regional_school@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:57:01 -0500
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What are we waiting for?
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In a lengthy article in American Educator, Richard Kahlenberg discusses
obstacles he's faced in promoting socioeconomic school integration over the
past 16 years, the overwhelming evidence in support of it as an education
policy, and promising signs of its undertaking nationally. At present,
policymakers on the left and right find it politically safer to support
"separate but equal" institutions for rich and poor, though to date no one
has made high-poverty schools work at scale (Kahlenberg addresses the case
of KIPP in a sidebar). Decades of research indicate that as the poverty
level of a school rises, the average achievement level falls. And the
country's relatively high rates of economic school segregation relative to
other countries may explain our lack of cost-effectiveness. Kahlenberg cites
a recent rigorous cost-benefit analysis, which found that averaged out over
all students, the public benefit per student from socioeconomic integration
is more than $20,000, and the combined public and private benefits amount to
$33,000 per student, far exceeding the cost of $6,340 per student required
to integrate. This public return (a factor of 3.3) and total return (public
and private, 5.2) outstrips almost all other investments in education,
including private school vouchers, reduced class size, and improvements in
teacher quality. Kahlenberg warns that concentrated poverty is growing, and
ends by discussing lessons that have emerged around making socioeconomic
integration politically sustainable.
Read more: http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/
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