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Category Archives: Education
LAT: How Not To Raise A Workaholic
LAT: A student studies for an upcoming algebra exam at an after-school program in Charleston, S.C. (Wade Spees / Associated Press) From New York Times: No Alcohol for Sexually Active Women Without Birth Control, C.D.C. Recommends Sexually active women who … Continue reading
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Racial bean-counting is making schools unsafe
New York Post: Black students misbehave more often. Tragically, school administrators are so fearful of saying it that they’re being intimidated into ceding control of classrooms to violent, disruptive students. That’s the story in New York City, where serious crimes … Continue reading
My Year of Terror and Abuse Teaching at a NYC High School
By Maureen Callahan, New York Post, January 17, 2016 In 2008, Ed Boland, a well-off New Yorker who had spent 20 years as an executive at a nonprofit, had a midlife epiphany: He should leave his white-glove world, the galas … Continue reading
What Do You Do For Americans With Two Digit IQs?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Bring back those low-skilled, labor-intensive industries we outsourced to China. Trump has the right idea here and I predict it will appeal to working class people of all races, who are bright enough to understand … Continue reading
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The Atlantic: The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids
The Atlantic: “Because so few adults can remember the pertinent details of their own preschool or kindergarten years, it can be hard to appreciate just how much the early-education landscape has been transformed over the past two decades. The changes … Continue reading
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I can’t wait to see the rocket scientists developing out of this system!
Washington Post: This superintendent has figured out how to make school work for poor kids shelters for their students. Nor do they often run food banks or have a system in place to provide whatever clothes kids need. Few offer … Continue reading
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Intelligence & The Class Room
Linda Gottfredson writes: As James A. Kulik of the University of Michigan reported in the Handbook of Gifted Education (2003), “On the basis of site visits, experts have concluded that untracking brings no guarantee of high-quality instruction for everyone but … Continue reading
LAT: Why some LAUSD teachers are balking at a new approach to discipline problems
As we all know, black kids suffer from too much discipline in their lives. Los Angeles Times: The district moved to ban suspensions amid national concern that they imperil academic achievement and disproportionately affect minorities, particularly African Americans. But many … Continue reading
The Costly War on Painful Education
Robert Weisberg writes: Pain is inescapably part of life and a pre-requisite to accomplishment (“no pain, no gain”). But, that said, fortunes await those who can promise all the benefits sans any pain—think miracle weight loss pills. Most of these … Continue reading
The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967–2014 II
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Educational Realist: The courts have been the biggest bane of public education. It supported the progressive educators, or in many cases created rights that not even progressive educators had dreamed up. Progressive educators, who wouldn’t … Continue reading
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