January 29, 2006

Public-School Students Score Well in Math in Large-Scale Government Study - New York Times

Public-School Students Score Well in Math in Large-Scale Government Study - New York Times


The devil is in the adjustments and normalizations for 'demographic' and 'population' differences between school types. What does this really mean? I'm sure we'll see studies that adjust the data to prove both sides of the debate. Yet, here we have one study that says public schools are better. What can we trust?

While we argue back and forth about the benefits of different types of schools, the real issue is that American schools/students in science and math do so less well than our global competitors.

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