Education's Elephant in the Room Russell Warne at Quillette. Everything I've been saying and more. I would add that teachers see results in their classroom and project this to other classes and eventual lifetime success. But they are often wrong on both.
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes. However, when schools have a good curriculum and experienced teachers, individual differences in student achievement widen. Yes, struggling students do perform slightly better—but the most able students show greater gains.
War Over? I am skeptical partly because it has been a fixture in my life since 1967. Inertia. There have been too many false alarms. OTOH, even if this is only some solid improvement and resetting, that will be an enormous success.
Publisher apologises to Melania and pulls book.
Reading Books Made a Man of Me For me, it was more that reading books set the table. Perhaps the same thing.
Chinese Dams Hold Billions of People to Ransom
Nowhere is the impact of damming shared rivers more pronounced than in Asia. An estimated 718 billion cubic meters of water flows from the Tibetan Plateau every year. Of this, only 35 percent – roughly 250 billion cubic meters per year – flows wholly through China. 48 percent of Tibet’s water supply flows into India through rivers like the Brahmaputra and Ganges and, to a lesser degree, into Pakistan through the Indus. Whichever nation controls the Tibetan Plateau controls the water supply of nearly two billion people.
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"Elephant in the room" Seems like the kids figure out pretty quickly who's bright and who's dim, and react accordingly.
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