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the authors suggest that it's time for a massive federally supported effort, equivalent in intensity to the Manhattan Project, to determine the source of academ
by RK 17y ago
the authors suggest that it's time for a massive federally supported effort, equivalent in intensity to the Manhattan Project, to determine the source of academic achievement gaps and to develop plans to shrink them.
I don't even know how to comment on that. I'll just point this out as a choice sentence from the article.
- ksvs 17y agoI noticed that too. What if the source is something that can't be shrunk?
- tokenadult 17y agoRichard Nisbett's recent book http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-How-Get-Schools-Cultures/dp/0393065057 http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-How-Get-Schools-Cultures/... is the subject of an academic study group I'm participating in this semester http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall09/mcguem/psy8935/default.htm http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall09/mcguem/psy8935/defau... and one of the amazing conclusions from broad literature reviews is that there is STILL remarkably little research on educational outcomes with sound experimental designs. http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html There may be some rather inexpensive and simple (once discovered) interventions that could do a lot to close group achievement gaps, but today no one is sure at all.
- araneae 17y agoIt's actually become an annoyingly common metaphor. A good friend of mine wrote an article about it http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32726 http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32726 (he's a hacker too.)