AS Department of Education officials consider how best to spend billions from the economic stimulus plan, they would be wise to pay attention to which programs actually help children’s achievement — and keep in mind that sometimes very small influences in children’s lives can have very big effects.
Consider, for example, what the social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson have described as “stereotype threat,” which hampers ...
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This opinion piece is loaded with information and seems like required reading for anyone interested in the topic of education, or the stimulus.
While most of the facts presented are the same as, or consistent with, what I've read from the 1970's to the present, the KIPP data has been questioned, leading me to decrease my evaluation of this story.
Aa example of the stupidity that permeates secondary education in the US and patronizing toward black students.
The black students would be better helped if their ipods and cellphones are taken at the door of the school and if no student not dressed conventionally was let into the door. Any student using the F word or compound thereof should be shown the door for the day.
Interesting point-of-view piece about educational interventions that have been shown to work with minority kids. Many of them seem to attack the effect of being submerged in a dominant culture. The article makes a plea for directing stimulus money at programs which have been shown to work, rather than scattered.
I'd like to hear more debate on this topic from other education experts about programs which work or which don't. I doubt if there's as much consensus as it appears from reading a single article!
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