Why public education should be scrapped

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28. Research and statistics

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data show that American schools with a poverty rate of 10% or less are the best performing schools in the world. This would seem to indicate that improving public schools would follow a reduction in poverty rates. We instead have followed policies that have increased poverty, underfunded schools with the greatest needs, and endured an attack by the oligarchy on our profession. The reformers have scant and questionable data to back their reforms. If we cared about our kids we would implement policies that research shows to reliably improve their outcomes, not slash public funding by waging a marketing campaign against public education and teaching professionals. Educate yourself.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/analysis/2010-section3a1.asp