American schools are underperforming, concludes a report, A Stagnant Nation: Why American Students Are Still at Risk, by ED in ‘08. It’s been 25 years since the National Commission on Excellence in Education warned of a “nation at risk” from a “rising tide of mediocrity.”
(The commission’s) recommendations related to time, teaching and standards have yet to be enacted.
You can register here for the ED in ‘08 summit May 14-15 in Washington, D.C. You’ll be able to hear stars of the edublogosphere, such as Alexander Russo, Sara Mead, Kevin Carey and me! I’ll be talking about The Role of Education Blogs at the Grassroots. No, I’m not sure what that means either but I’ll figure it out.
Update: New York Times columnist Bob Herbert piles on.
Roughly a third of all American high school students drop out. Another third graduate but are not prepared for the next stage of life — either productive work or some form of post-secondary education.
The U.S. is standing in place educationally and watching other nations pass us by.
I’m still wondering why an EduBlogger summit is being held in the middle of the week in the middle of May. We teachers must not be the target audience.
“I’ll be talking about The Role of Education Blogs at the Grassroots.”
Good luck.
It will be interesting to see what kinds of questions you get from the audience.
I’ll be there, too.
“We teachers must not be the target audience”
When have teachers ever been the focus of education policy at the federal, state, district, or even school levels?
Not surpisingly, they fail to mention how US test scores in international studies have declined since the implementation of NCLB in this “report”.