Site of the Day for Monday, October 4, 2021
Born to Win, Schooled to Lose -- Why Equally Talented Students Don't Get
Equal Chances to Be All They Can Be
Today's site from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce
offers a perceptive but critical analysis of the current state of American
public school education. Gentle Subscribers will find this visual presentation
does a first-rate job of summarizing the outcomes for students from wealthy and
disadvantaged backgrounds.
"The American Dream promises that individual talent will be rewarded,
regardless of where one comes from or who one's parents are. But the reality of
what transpires along America's K-12-to-career pipeline reveals a sorting of
America's most talented youth by affluence -- not merit. - from the website
With an admirable focus on empirical data, the animated graphics showcased in
the presentation provide an easy to grasp overview of how children from less
well off families fare in relation to those from more comfortably situated
ones. Colorful illustrations highlight academic abilities and disparities
beginning in kindergarten, through middle and high school, while correlating
this with socioeconomic backgrounds, based on data from Georgetown's analysis
of the 2006 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten. In addition, the
issue of race has also been included in the presentation. Mouseovers with
explanatory data, an illuminating infographic, and an informative, animated
video are also available, rounded off by thoughtful Policy Recommendations.
Stride to the site to review this data rich but brief presentation on public
school education at:
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/schooled2lose/
A.M. Holm
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