7 Mar 2025 12:06 pm
You have poor students because you have poor teachers......I don't care how much money you waste on a broken process.Vegas » Today, 12:04 pm » wrote: ↑ Many will say yes. Many will say no. Let's first post some facts. There are a lot more than what I quoted, but I want to specifically focus on how it funded more impoverished area schools that otherwise would have been neglected by the states. The truthful answer to whether or not the DOE made things worse or better is impossible to know. Before the DOE, there was no way of doing any national ranking to compare us to the rest of the world. The DOE made that possible. However, the results were not pretty.
Is this because the DOE made it worse or did the DOE just expose what was already in place?
I think this is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it allowed poorer areas more funding. On the other hand, it's usually the poor areas who are not academically proficient. Therefore, we included a mass of kids who incessantly score below average in the national ranking, where as before, they were not included. Thus, our national and world ranking has always been embarrassingly low.