COVID hit hard, but these gaps were growing before the pandemic... especially for low-income and struggling students. Remote learning just made it worse. Socioeconomic status still drives most of this—wealthy kids have resources, while poorer kids are left behind. Add in demographic shifts—immigrant kids doing better here than at home but still starting from different baselines—and the system isn’t adapting fast enough.
Charter schools? They cherry-pick students and leave public schools with fewer resources and more challenges. Standardized tests like TIMSS highlight the problem but don’t explain why. Feels like a perfect storm: inequality, bad policies, underfunding, and no clear plan to fix any of it.
Charter schools? They cherry-pick students and leave public schools with fewer resources and more challenges. Standardized tests like TIMSS highlight the problem but don’t explain why. Feels like a perfect storm: inequality, bad policies, underfunding, and no clear plan to fix any of it.