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   by schmave 18y ago

   This graph, shown at 12:50, shows how good four different factors are at predicting whether a teacher will raise the test scores of her students, and they are: 1) Past Performance (presumably, whether the teacher raised his students' test s
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   by schmave 18y ago

   As a few other people here have suggested, standardized test scores are a pretty narrow measure of education quality. Bill Gates mentioned that everyone in the room had probably had a few great teachers to get them to where they are now. Wh
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   by schmave 18y ago

   Production is solved for now, but our solution (at least in the US, as I understand it) depends on abundant supplies of fossil fuel and fossil water, which are not going to be around forever. So, there is plenty of work to do to see that th
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   by schmave 18y ago

   If you are interested in what he has to say about education, you might also like the writings of John Taylor Gatto: * http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm * http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
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   by schmave 18y ago

   This article throws the term "hook" around. Do they mean binary rewriting or some other kind of hooking? That's awesome if Xobni went the rewriting route.