Can states improve their education by copying states that are doing worse?
January 23, 2010 pm31 2:29 pm
Tom Hoffman, focused on standards, wonders out loud why Rhode Island is emulating low and middle performing southern states and not higher performing New England and Mid-Atlantic states. Read it here.
The answers are missing (though I think they are implied):
- No, they can’t improve by emulating states with weaker education systems.
- And the implied question: then why are they copying them? Because it is part of a conservative, anti-public education, anti-union, pro-privatization surge.
Corporate-style education reform does have goals. I just don’t think that “improving education” is among them.
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