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Everything Important In Life Depends On Your Ability To Answer This Kindergarten Question
Business Insider ^
| 10/01/2010
| Joe Weisenthal
Posted on 10/01/2010 8:13:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harvard Professor Raj Chetty and a group of other researchers have performed a much-discussed study (via Gene Expression) that looks at what factors really affect things like income, your likelihood to own a home, and odds of getting married.
The most startling thing they found?
Your score on a very basic kindergarten test is a HUGE predictor. Other educational factors like class size and the quality of your teachers aren't nearly as important.
Given the renewed interest in educational policy in America right now, it's fascinating.
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To: SeekAndFind
I think I think too much.
Cup = Pinta, one of Christopher Columbus's boats....
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posted on
10/01/2010 11:42:35 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
To: cajungirl
You have to admit with a handle like cajungirl, it catches the eye and the imagination. Visions of spicy food, exotic music.
How old are you? (not hitting, promise)
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posted on
10/01/2010 11:44:43 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
To: Lazamataz
Looks like the drummer has the sheet up as a splatter guard.
143
posted on
10/01/2010 11:45:40 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
To: SeekAndFind
Now, did you score well on that kindergarten test and graduate from a great school? Many of the graphs are intentionally misleading by not starting the vertical axis at zero. I'm glad I didn't pay for this propaganda. Why is it colleges claim credit for people's brains and incomes yet all they really do is filter out as many idiots as they can afford to.
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posted on
10/01/2010 11:57:06 AM PDT
by
Reeses
(Hate is envy brought to a boil.)
To: februus
When I was a kid our 2nd grade teacher began one test, first by announcing there were 100 things to do on it. The first item on the test read: Read all questions before beginning this test. The next item read: Stand up and pat your head... The next: Rub you tummy... The test did not give enough time to complete all remaining items - but they were pretty much Hop in place 25 times.. and so on. The last item read: If you followed the first item and read through all questions FIRST - congratulations! Put your head down and rest for ten minutes. Whenever I encounter such a test, I wonder why the final item is supposed to get priority over all the rest. If there is a contradiction between two instructions, I fail to see why the latter one would automatically be assumed to be the binding one.
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posted on
10/01/2010 11:58:27 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
To: Politicalmom
LOL ... it’s that kind of day ya know.
146
posted on
10/01/2010 12:15:44 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: pops88
Yes, I remember that used to happen to me.
147
posted on
10/01/2010 1:35:30 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: spectre
Of course this is correct if one can already read. If you look at a former post of mine, my juniors and seniors mostly read at about a 5th grade level. That is the level at which they stopped formal reading class. From 6th grade on they have Language Arts where they learn only 10 vocab words/week. Up to 5th grade they learn whole word memorization. It is no coincidence that they are still stuck at an elementary reading level.
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posted on
10/01/2010 2:32:46 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: aruanan
You must not be very familiar with eduction. “Experts” are paid handsomely (from our hard work) to reinvent the wheel every few years. The phonics phase is so 1990’s and whole-word memorization is back. The only trend that public education will not return to is the classical trivium method. That’s because it works.
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posted on
10/01/2010 2:35:23 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: goodwithagun
You must not be very familiar with eduction. Experts are paid handsomely (from our hard work) to reinvent the wheel every few years. The phonics phase is so 1990s and whole-word memorization is back. The only trend that public education will not return to is the classical trivium method. Thats because it works.
The Chicago Public Schools is phonics-based in reading instruction starting in kindergarten.
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posted on
10/01/2010 3:24:36 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: goodwithagun
I’m a college tutor, I try to destroy the whole word system by spelling out and breaking down all the latin terminology. It can be painful, but by the end of it, the student can actually read.
151
posted on
10/01/2010 4:18:01 PM PDT
by
BenKenobi
("Henceforth I will call nothing else fair unless it be her gift to me")
To: aruanan
Good for them. Now if the rest of the country would just follow suit we could have some progress.
152
posted on
10/02/2010 6:49:49 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Blueflag
God love ya - most of us have done something like this during our time here... posting quickly carries it’s own risks... On the lighter side, you might have created a classic thread...
153
posted on
10/02/2010 7:07:35 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
To: GOPJ
Yup. It’s rewarding to have added to the FReeper lexicon.
I duk-kup’d.
;-)
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posted on
10/02/2010 2:25:40 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: Blueflag
You’re a good sport... and you’ve joined freeper lore...
155
posted on
10/02/2010 7:57:55 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
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