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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by Ensorceled on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:41AM (#27603798)
We do all of that in Canada, for 3K per student less AND get much better results (at least on average).
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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by ipaddr on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:47AM (#27603854)
Why do you think Canada gets a better results?
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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by Ensorceled on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:12AM (#27604159)
To be clear, the results aren't great. We pay teachers more, we have pretty much no focus on elite athletics, less political mucking around in the actual education process.
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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by connectsnk on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:48AM (#27603877)
Probably can be attributed to huge asian and south asian immigrant population who put a very big emphasis on education in their families
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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by nick__m on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:01PM (#27611049)
Your theory doesn't explain Quebec scoring so high¹ in math in the 2018 PISA² test.

https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/research/publications...

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-results_ENGLISH.png

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