Summary of Luke Rosiak's Race to the Bottom

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#1 The education industry has settled on finding ways to look good rather than be good. They play a numbers game, masking problems with statistics. This helps their careers, but harms kids.

#2 The graduation rate increased throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, but not every single one of those graduates was accepted to college. In reality, half of the students were truant for more than three months, which is against district policy.

#3 Obama praised the rising graduation rates in D. C. and across the country, but similar maneuvers were responsible for increases in graduation rates only in wealthy black-majority counties.

#4 The for-profit education industry developed methods to take students who were illiterate or refused to go to school, and turn them into glowing statistics for administrators and politicians, without actually improving the students.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669368496

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The education industry has settled on finding ways to look good rather than be good. They play a numbers game, masking problems with statistics. This helps their careers, but harms kids.

#2

The graduation rate increased throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, but not every single one of those graduates was accepted to college. In reality, half of the students were truant for more than three months, which is against district policy.

#3

Obama praised the rising graduation rates in D. C. and across the country, but similar maneuvers were responsible for increases in graduation rates only in wealthy black-majority counties.

#4

The for-profit education industry developed methods to take students who were illiterate or refused to go to school, and turn them into glowing statistics for administrators and politicians, without actually improving the students.

#5

Similar to lowering standards, these fads use subjective measures to show positive outcomes. They often result in grade inflation, and sometimes obscure record-keeping that would show whether kids knew basic math, science, and reading.

#6

There is a dirty secret across the country. Subjectively assigned grades may look good, but objective test scores say different. Few parents pressure officials about this mismatch because when their kid comes home with an A, they are not inclined to argue.

#7

The idea that there is too much testing in schools is completely false. The mandatory state tests are designed to measure schools more than students. Students are not affected in any way by their scores.

#8

The SAT was designed to identify which