The First Reading

In the reading “A Public Education Primer” the author goes into certain area like where are the students, who are the students, who controls public education, how are they funded and the advancements in public education. Some facts that I read in this story is that 9 out of 10 students are in public schools, more Latins and African Americans attend urban school district, four out of ten public school students are color and that more than one third of public schools students are from low income families. Also other interesting notes are how more than 90% of funding for public schools come from state and local sources and that more than 60% of educational spending on a average goes towards instruction while only about 8% goes to administration. Also from the reading student scores have gone up in math in forth and eight grade since the 1990s but the scores stayed the same in science scores. Also whites and Asians have better test scores. The good news about this article is that more students are graduating high school by 43%. The other bit of good news is that almost half of all public school teachers have advance degrees and majority have more than 10 years experience. By what I see in the reading is that there are higher educated teachers than ever before. This reading was filled with a lot of useful information and I enjoyed reading it