Sputnik Point of View: Deficit Language in U.S. Education
It was a Sputnik moment, President Obama said, when the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) standardized test scores were published late last year. The US ranked somewhere in the mid-20s for most subjects. “America is in danger of falling behind,” Obama warned. We’re being “out-educated,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan cried. Panicked pundits followed suit: “Wake up!” “Catch up!” Fill up that “gap!” There’s no doubt that our everyday uses of language matter. The language we use can shape how we...
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