Basically, DoD schools benefit from a high level of funding, strong and consistent leadership, and a focus on across-the-board improvement. Now when can we roll this same attitude and funding out to all the public schools in this country?
Not as long as school funding is basically tethered to property values. This country is so dumb.
I went to a DoDDS school overseas and can confirm it was miles ahead of the public schools I went to in the US. The teachers were all well paid with a generous COLA. The school, while crowded, was in good shape.
The best thing though was that we had such high turnover year to year (about 30% of students changed each year) so there weren’t a lot of cliques and most people were pretty inviting.
Oh and getting expelled would result in getting deported which kept a lot of problems at bay.
I didn’t know the situation was so dire in the US that a bottle of coke was worse more than a public teacher’s salary ^^
Yeah, but it’s one of those fancy sugar cane, glass bottle Cokes.
Fine but how are their football teams? When Texans look at how their high schoolers score, it ain’t on some test designed by Washington bureaucrats. It’s on Friday nights when the pressure is on. /s
GO NAVY BEAT ARMY IGNORE AIRFORCE LOL
You put /s but it’s literally true in many cases, and it’s dumb as hell.
What if we just give more money directly to schools
Socialism! This guy wants to help other people call the police!
No you need strong oversight. I saw from the inside how the Philadelphia school district squandered their funds on bullshit Apple laptops and computers that were never used, instead of the Linux desktops and kids were actually using daily. Chromebooks are just leasable ewaste.
Absolutely hate Chromebooks for my kids from their school. There’s little control parents have over content/limits and much easier for kids to distract themselves from necessary assignments.
Spyware and ewaste aside, I notice whole generations from my school district are going into college not knowing basic stuff like how to download and install programs using .exe and using Microsoft Word. They also do not know how to type, which is something that was taught when I was in elementary, but apparently isn’t taught to my sister, who goes to the same district.
It seems to be less mentioned: student selection. Imagine if every school district could just remove the test scores of those with unemployed parents.
But yeah, if every family had good jobs for parents and a well funded school system? We’d almost have the American dream.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal exam that is considered the gold standard for comparing states and large districts, the Defense Department’s schools outscored every jurisdiction in math and reading last year and managed to avoid widespread pandemic losses.
“If the Department of Defense schools were a state, we would all be traveling there to figure out what’s going on,” said Martin West, an education professor at Harvard who serves on the national exam’s governing board.
Prudence Carter, a Brown University sociologist who studies educational inequality, said the Defense Department’s results showed what could happen when all students were given the resources of a typical middle-class child: housing, health care, food, quality teachers.
The changes shared similarities with the Common Core, a politically fraught reform movement that sought to align standards across states, with students reading more nonfiction and delving deeper into mathematical concepts.
The approach is meant to guard against what Dr. Dilmar, the school’s principal, calls “pockets of excellence” — a teacher who helps students soar in one classroom, while an instructor down the hall struggles.
Instead, the goal is to raise the floor for all students, something that Jason Dougal, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, sees in top-performing countries like Finland and Singapore.
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DoDDS are absolutely the best. All education, none of the BS. Military BRATS come out of schools with a better understanding of the world compared to public schools and light-years beyond anything you get in charter or religious schools.
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We have finally figured out where all the DoD money goes!
Oh weird this article talks about defense contractors? I didn’t see that
“If the Department of Defense schools were a state,"
Like I don’t know what other jokes I’m supposed to make from that.
It’s the joke that writes itself!
This is a tiny, tiny fraction of the DoD money.
Most of that is going into grift.
I dunno, I’d imagine the top of the list is the f-35 and then grift a close second, unless you count the f-35 as grift in which case sure.
Parts of the f-35 program are definitely grift.
