Ugh. I meant to write about this paper and then forgot. Glad that Derek did it.
Derek Thompson in the Atlantic wrote about a new study by Martin Carnoy and Richard Rothstein that found that when student data is broken down by class, our comparisons with other nations improve dramatically.
When you break down student performance by social class, a more complicated, yet more hopeful, picture emerges, highlighted by two pieces of good news. First, our most disadvantaged students have improved their math scores faster than most comparable countries. Second, our most advantaged students are world-class readers.