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You intervene when the student is still learning the material, before the test. You do not intervene after the test. At that point the learning process for tha
by confiscate 8y ago
You intervene when the student is still learning the material, before the test.
You do not intervene after the test. At that point the learning process for that material is already over. The student has already "missed out" on the learning opportunity. You would just be giving a good grade to someone who doesn't know the material.
Yes we need to help folks who are intergenerationally poor. But, you do that by helping their kids learn better and meet the testing bar.
You are not helping them by lowering the bar for them. Giving the kids better grades even if they don't know the material, would actually hurt them.
- ytpete 8y ago> You are not helping them by lowering the bar for them. But you are helping underperforming students by placing them into top schools, comingled with better students - lots of research shows that. So lowering the bar for admission really does help. I think the open question is how that balances against the cost of having fewer slots available at those top schools for the very best students.
- confiscate 8y agoI don't know what research you are pointing to. But I am pretty sure that if, say, a student can't pass a multiplication test, but you give that student an A+ anyways, and then let that student into a "top calculus class", that's going to hurt the student more than it helps. Ya sure the student gets to mingle with better students. But what you would usually get is, the student would end up being someone who mentions a lot of buzz words like "fractal integrals" just to fit in, but have zero idea what is going on, or what is being taught in class.