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POV | Watch Online. Education Reform-Schools of Thought. Dissident Voice. A revealing thought experiment about student achievement and school reform. In the following thought experiment, you are asked to assess data about two states and identify the one in which an average child is likely to achieving more in school. Created by educator and researcher David Berliner, it reveals just how off-base current school reform efforts have been in targeting what the real problems are that keep students from doing well in school. Berliner is the Regents’ Professor Emeritus, a former dean of the College of Education at Arizona State University, a fellow of the National Academy of Education and a past president of the American Educational Research Association.
This appeared on Diane Ravitch’s blog. By David Berliner Let’s do a thought experiment. To check the accuracy of your choice I will use the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as the measure of school achievement. Let’s start. So let me add more information to consider. Alright, if you are still cautious in expressing your opinions, here is some more to think about.