busyReport Says Education Gaps Create "Permanent Recession"
Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, The Christian Science Monitor: "Educational achievement gaps are typically measured in terms of test scores - across lines of race and income, or even across state and national borders. But what if they were measured in dollars?"
One way to improve matters would be to narrow or close the gaps in education. Another would be to put some serious effort into matching people's interests and abilities to suitable careers. Right now, we are wasting a tremendous amount of human potential; we should not be doing that.
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April 25 2009, 00:28:20 UTC 12 years ago
I always did better alone. I might've enjoyed group work if it had been presented properly. Instead, it was one of two things: 1) I did most or all the work, or 2) I did only my share and let the project fail because I wasn't willing to do other people's work for them and I could afford a low grade.
>>And too few educational professionals, then or now, seem able to recognize the difference between a true trouble-maker and a kid who is just acting up out of boredom. Or, perhaps their hands are simply tied.<<
Sometimes the immediate person on the spot doesn't have enough power to be of any help. But in general, the adults have the power, so if they fail to provide an appropriate learning environment and a child causes problems because of that, it is the adults' fault. You don't plant a rosebush under a walnut tree and scream at it for turning brown: it is your fault for putting it there.