Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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The Permanent Recession

This article raises an interesting point: America doesn't educate all its people effectively. This creates a permanent drag on their earning capacity, which lowers the amount the country makes too.

Report 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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Re: Thoughts

_paegan_

April 25 2009, 00:01:23 UTC 12 years ago

Not necessarily, although that's a common misconception. Intelligence expresses itself in various ways.

Ohhhh! This! My younger daughter is not an academic, in the least. But, if you live long enough, you will know her name. She has had a natural hand/mind/eye for art since she was a young toddler. I've seen her turn her artistic gift to varied media: writing, writing music, photography, performing music, poetry, and many others in her (nearly 18) years. Awarded often at state level visual arts during grammar school, she first published poetry in junior high and attended a couple of "art school" high schools. However, it may be as a goth/fetish model you will first encounter her. She also makes art of herself.

She never was the voracious reader like myself or her sister. Her favorite book had no words at all, received when she was three and treasured still. She was about eight when I asked her why it was her favorite still, worried about her lack of reading. She answered, "When you read a book, it's the same story every time. When I look through this one, it's a different story every time." She'll eventually have her academic sister do her accounting, I'm sure.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

April 25 2009, 00:32:22 UTC 12 years ago

>> She answered, "When you read a book, it's the same story every time. When I look through this one, it's a different story every time."<<

That is very insightful. *chuckle* Though to be fair, I and other word-people can get that effect out of a word-book.

>> She'll eventually have her academic sister do her accounting, I'm sure.<<

*LAUGH* I had math teachers come down on me and demand how I'd handle math after I left school. What were they, STUPID? In the real world, you don't do something really important if you know you'll get it wrong -- you ask or hire someone competent to do it for you. But my smartass answer was, "Marry into it."

Which is what I actually wound up doing. Heh.