3 ms·
This just underscores the headline statement of the article though, wouldn't you say? If e.g. US education policy were strongly focused on equity, chances are t
by nhaehnle 14y ago
This just underscores the headline statement of the article though, wouldn't you say? If e.g. US education policy were strongly focused on equity, chances are that those immigrants wouldn't score lower than the average. And since powerful groups would still want their children to score well, chances are that the system would change in a way that pulls everybody up rather than pushing anybody down.
From the other perspective, it seems perfectly possible to have a culturally and ethnically homogenous country with high inequality (along class lines rather than racial lines) and hence worse education results.
- netcan 14y agoEthnic issues aside, I think the OP's most important point is that schools are not the only thing that goes into education. Their family, community and friends might even be more important. Imagine you took a school performing in the top 5% academically and swap the students with a school performing in the bottom 5%. Which do you think will perform better? Universities ares someplace where this is widely accepted. Go to a good Uni because that's where the good students are. It probably works for primary schools too.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- waps 14y agoThat's assuming there is a way to have equality without pulling everybody down to some moronically bad level. That's the only way I've ever known equality to work.