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Alright, I'm not done ranting about my education law casebook and its treatment of ability grouping. Maybe you thought my description was an exaggeration. It's not. Let's take a look.
How does the casebook start its analysis of ability grouping? It calls it "within-school segregation" that leads people to "receive a low... See more
In other words, a poor kid in the US is nearly four times more likely to graduate from college than a foster kid.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
I’m judging you and I’ll only love you if you succeed—on my terms.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Diane Ravitch in her magisterial review, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education.
Gary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Students who have been treated as smart since elementary school may go off to private colleges that spend up to $350,000 per student per year. Meanwhile many of the less gifted students, who quickly perceive that teachers don’t value them the same way, will end up at community colleges that may spend only $17,000 per pupil per year. By adulthood, t... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
You can even see the difference in people’s brain waves.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
“healthy, loving, and supportive families are crucial to nurture compassionate, ethical persons and create sane and just societies.”