George Lord Interview

I found out a lot of interesting facts in this interview this morning. Way too many to fit in this blog post even. But I’ll share some of the stuff I found most interesting:

I think I just read somewhere the other day that the US is 2 years behind that of other schools in foreign countries. Course, we’re always hearing stuff like that on the news. But according to Dr. Lord, we only look bad in the tests scores because of when they’re testing us. Other countries are tested in math when their students are 22 years old; our students are tested before they have even learned the math. I never put that into consideration-the way the testing is done. I just always bought what I heard about the US being so behind. It definitely makes me rethink some things. Good thing I’m not focusing on the education factor in School Assessment mostly, or I would really be thrown for a loop.

What really caught my attention was this statement: If kids in the public school have a control for income (meaning if every kid in the schools received the same income), they would do better than private. Whoa. That really goes against everything we hear…It also makes you think about the amount of poverty in the schools. I had looked into poverty a bit for Part 2 of the Paper, but never poured hours of research into it though. Maybe I’ll get back to it though; everything seems to be leading to it.

My topic is school violence, so all these statistics about education weren’t really of any interest to me. I think I will have to tie it in though, maybe. Writing this blog now, I realize there are a lot of things I need to rethink.