Published in Education Week, November 1, 2017
Bill Gates still doesn't get it. The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation will invest $1.7 billion in new curricula development
and research and development of innovative education initiatives, among other
improvements, over the next five years ("Bill
Gates Announces $1.7 Billion in New K-12 Investments"). But the main problem in American education is not poor curricula or
lack of data. The problem is poverty. When researchers control for the effect
of poverty, U.S. schools' international test scores are some of the highest
among schools worldwide. Our overall scores are unspectacular because our rate
of child poverty is the highest among economically advanced countries. Poverty
means food deprivation, lack of health care, and limited access to books, all
of which have a devastating effect on school performance. Martin Luther King
Jr. was right when he said: "We are likely to find that the problems of
housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will
themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished." While schools and
teachers can always improve, they are not to blame for poverty's effects. The
best teaching in the world will not help if students are hungry, ill, and have
little or nothing to read.
Stephen Krashen
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