100 representative American Kids entering high school. What does fate have in store for them . 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. A total of 50 wont go to college. Thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. Meanwhi meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. On a recent international test, u. S. Students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. Overall, the World Economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. Whats odd is that weve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. In 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the 7,400 average for rich countries. How can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it . Well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in American Education here on this special essay. Well examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. And we ask the man who spent
profanity filled messages and social media posts from two of the defendants. some made months before the fbi game vovmentd florida lawmakers give final approval a bill that would overall the state s standardized testing system. lawmakers seek to replace it with a progress monitoring system that would test students three times a year. this is a live look at denver from fox 31. one of the big stories there tonight, temperatures hitting minus 7 degrees this morning. that breaks the previous record low of minus three degrees for this date set in 1932. the national weather service says today s temperature is the coldest low in denver since 1960. ooof, that s a live look from outside the beltway from special report. we ll be right back you re as cold as ice ve. jamaica.
seattle public schools presented a plan for math, the ethnic studies framework with goals to identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color and explain how math dictates economic oppression. in maryland, one school district introduced a proposal to integrate schools for the achievement gap which basically meant buzzing 7300 students from schools with higher test scores to other schools with lower scores and vice versa. parents from all racial backgrounds who lived there for many years led a protest saying they weren t going to take this sitting down. do not take unity out of community. i ve never been involved in organizing our community but
seattle s public schools presented a plan for math called the ethnic studies framework with goals to identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used two oppressed and marginalized people and communities of color and explain how math dictates economic oppression. in maryland, one school district in howard county introduced a proposal to integrate schools to equalize the achievement gap which meant bunting students from schools with higher test scores to schools with lower test scores and vice versa. parents who have lived in the district for many years led a protest saying they were going to take this study, sitting do down. don t take the unity out of community. i ve never been involved in organizing anything in our community but when it came to blessing our kids for unnecessary reasons across town
this week. good to see you both. you first, you argued that our educational system is designed to give rich white kids the best odds of getting into these elite colleges. so explain why you believe that is the case. well, you can see this in the system of legacy preferences which disproportionately privilege rich white kids at many elite college, legacy students, with legacy, all have higher admission rates than those without. and then you can also see, with the standardized testing system, where the emphasis on s.a.t. and a.c.t. scores, family income is the best predictor of s.a.t. performance, and i strongly believe that if we are going to make college admissions more equitable, we ve got to end legacy preferences, and make colleges and universities go test optional as more than a thousand colleges and universities in the united states. do you agree, that that might be a way in which to cut through