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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by onethought on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:47PM (#21652451)
Academia has solved this problem.

You are 100% right, the world has yet to catch up. But mostly because politics, politicians, voting... etc. Not because we don't understand the problem/solutions.

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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by sethammons on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:07PM (#21653085)
Could you go a bit deeper there? How is it solved? I def agree that politics and ingrained behavior ("it was good enough for me when I was a kid!") can make change hard or near impossible.
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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by onethought on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:51PM (#21677714)
The US has the most advanced research on this, yet possibly the worst education policy (pick whatever state you like).

Schools are funded incorrectly, schools end up Segregating on income, which sadly ends up segregating on race.

This ends up with rich schools and poor schools. Rich kids get good outcomes poor kids get bad outcomes. The cycle continues.

We know what we need to do, just no political will to do it.

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