Twitter Book Club: Deborah Meier (2002) In Schools We Trust - Part Two Chapter 8

8. The Achievement Gap

"The gap between social classes is today somehow a somewhat more comfortable one for many Americans to accept than ... http://tl.gd/bjp3rvless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"the economic gap is rarely regarded as a serious concern for reformers and politicians." Meierless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Until the experiences of home and school were made more continuous and natural, and parents had reason to trust th... http://tl.gd/bjpatqless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"There are children who arrive in school unsure of what the routines are for being good and bad, and thus they retr... http://tl.gd/bjpdoiless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Schools tell kids what they value and treasure, and what it is they don't, in ways they do and don't intend." Meierless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"(1) the tests aren't measuring what we think they are, and (2) as long as we focus our attention on that one gap, ... http://tl.gd/bjpmqqless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"the test score gap is one we've invented, and could uninvent." Meierless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"As long as tests must rank students, it is naive to imagine they are going to rank on criteria that won't give the... http://tl.gd/bjpp7tless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"As long as tests must rank students, it is naive to imagine they are going to rank on criteria that won't give the current 'haves' advantages over 'have nots'" Meier

"Kids who score poorly, whole communities of them, are given a less demanding education. They spend more tine on re... http://tl.gd/bjps1jless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Kids who score poorly, whole communities of them, are given a less demanding education. They spend more tine on remedial tasks, are taught in a more rote fashion, and are far more likely to be held over in grade, an experience that itself depresses their academic achievement and increases the gap in white and black graduation rates." Meier

"High test scores, whatever they might predict, are unable to predict teamwork abilities, perseverance, risk taking... http://tl.gd/bjptnnless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"I'll believe money doesn't count the day that the rich stop spending so much money on their own children." Meierless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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I'm waiting to see that day too.