Do low income students need a education model that will mitigate the effects of poverty that produce low academic achievement?* In schools where less than 10 percent of students get free or reduced lunhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifch, the reading score is 551. That would place those U.S. students at No. 2 on the international ranking for reading, just behind Shanghai, China which topped the ranking with a score of 556.
* In schools where 75 percent or more of the students get free or reduced lunch, the reading score was 446. That’s off the bottom of the charts, below last-place Greece’s 483.
Money matters and countless studies have demonstrated a link between parents’ income and students’ test scores.
The Economics Behind International Education Rankingshttp://neatoday.org/2010/12/09/a-look-at-the-economic-numbers-on-international-education-rankings/
Marc Sims
Chicago
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