Friday, December 02, 2005
Problems With High School
Manhattan Institute scholar Jay Greene writes about the problems with today's high schools:
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We have poured more money into schools, hired an army of new teachers to reduce class size, expanded professional development, and retained more experienced teachers-everything that the teacher unions have in mind when they repeat their mantra that we know what works and just need the resources to do it. We have doubled per-pupil spending (after adjusting for inflation) over the past three decades. We reduced the student-teacher ratio in high schools from 21.7 students per teacher in 1960 to 19.8 in 1970, and, by 1999, to 14.1. The percentage of teachers holding master's or doctoral degrees has more than doubled, from 27.5 percent in 1971 to 56.8 percent in 2001. The average teacher in 2001 had 14 years of experience compared with 8 years of experience in 1971.Mr. Greene includes in his report graphs on reading and math scores over time which should get your attention.
But none of it has worked.
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