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What is a fair way to compare then? If rich Asians kids from the "best" school perform the same as the rich Asians from the "worst" school and poor Native Ameri
by megaman821 1y ago
What is a fair way to compare then? If rich Asians kids from the "best" school perform the same as the rich Asians from the "worst" school and poor Native American kids from the "best" school perform same and poor Native American kids form the "worst" school, and the only differences between the best at the worst school is the proportion of each demographic, what does that say about the quality of the shcool?
- tstrimple 1y agoI've largely been convinced that "good schools" are just a side effect of motivated parents migrating to an area with "good schools". It has nothing at all to do with the schools or teachers themselves, but the parents with means who make decisions based on education will likely be doing other things to encourage education as well. Achieving a critical mass of children with involved parents will make a school "good".
- HDThoreaun 1y agoeducation is mostly at home but teachers do matter. Part of what is going on is that bad teachers get kicked out of schools with high parental participation so the errors are correlated I guess. If all parents became involved would bad teachers disappear or would the parents just have to live with them instead of being able to remove them?