Re: [Phys-l] Economic Inequality: The Real Cause of Urban School Problems #2

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In a message dated 10/12/2011 12:25:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rrhake@earthlink.net writes:
 
 
Thank you for posting this.
 
Bob Zannelli 

Some  subscribers to Phys-L might be interested in "Re: Economic 
Inequality: The  Real Cause of Urban School Problems #2" [Hake (2011)].

The abstract  reads:

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ABSTRACT:  ARN-L's Bob Schaeffer (2011) in a post "Economic 
Inequality: The Real  Cause of Urban School Problems" alluded to a 
Chicago Tribune Op. Ed.  <http://bit.ly/rv3rMO> of that title by Greg 
Duncan and Richard  Murnane (2011a), drawn from a book 
<http://bit.ly/nCkmKv> "Whither  Opportunity? Rising Inequality, 
Schools, and Children's Life Chances"  [Duncan & Murnane (2011)].

Regarding the influence of economic  inequality on K-12 education, 
some subscribers might also be interested in  these six items:

1. "Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform"  [Berliner (2005)], 
online as an 872 kB pdf at  <http://bit.ly/ff8BVj>;

2. "Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School  Factors and School 
Success"[Berliner (2009)], online as a 729 kB pdf at  
<http://bit.ly/fqiCUA>;

3. "To Improve Schools, Fight  Poverty, Education Expert Says" [Gosier 
(2011)], online at  <http://bit.ly/qyrBSL> - the expert is Stephen 
Krashen  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Krashen>;

4.  "Is the  'Teacher Effect' the Dominant Factor in Students' 
Academic Gain?" [Hake  (2011a,b)], online at <http://bit.ly/g6UWUZ> 
and  <http://bit.ly/jy61UB>;

5.  "Failure of U.S. Public  Secondary Schools in Mathematics: Poverty 
is a More Important Cause than  Teacher Quality" [Marder  (2011a)], 
online as a 3.3 MB pdf at  <http://bit.ly/fjUquC>;

6. "Education and Poverty: Visualizations  of World, US, and 
State-level Educational Data,"  [Marder   (2011b)], online at  
<http://bit.ly/nYC6eF>.

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To  access the complete 15 kB article please click on  
<http://bit.ly/ozuZEn>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of  Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer,  The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which  Recognize the
Invention of the Internet  (PEDARRII)
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com>
<http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake>

"For  the short term, preparing teachers in mathematics and science is 
a wise  and useful step toward improving schools. . . . . .[But]. . . 
As quickly  as possible, we must understand the link between poverty 
and educational  outcomes in the US, devise solutions, and test and 
implement them. Britain  briefly tried to substitute public relations 
for aircraft safety and paid  with the loss of its commercial aviation 
sector. I hope the United States  can avoid a similar error, that 
proponents of teacher quality and charter  schools will recognize the 
weakness of the evidence before it is too late,  that we will not 
damage public education, let down our most vulnerable  students, and 
lose technical leadership we take for granted."
Michael Marder  (2011)


REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/>  and accessed on 
12 Oct 2011.]

Hake, R.R. 2011. "Re: Economic  Inequality: The Real Cause of Urban 
School Problems #2," online on the  OPEN! AERA-L archives at 
<http://bit.ly/ozuZEn>. Post of 11 Oct 2011  19:59:34-0700 to AERA-L 
and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the  complete post were 
transmitted to various discussion lists and are also on  my blog 
"Hake'sEdStuff" at  <http://bit.ly/nOFgXx>.
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