Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016)
by WalterBright on Sunday January 08, 2023 @01:02AM
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Yes, some schools have standout performances. These are usually the result of a very charismatic and driven individual. None have been replicable.
The most famous case is that of Jaime Escalante:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante
The school system worked hard to undermine and destroy his work.
Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016)
by WeylandYutani on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:19AM
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The brutal honest truth is that few teachers WANT to work with disadvantaged kids in the slums.
In my country they are experimenting with giving them a bonus but it just isn't worth it.
She's a headmistress in the UK that specifically tailors her school's offerings to lower-socio kids who don't have educated/literate parents at home, and her GCSE results beat out the majority of middle-class schools.
There are some similar examples in Australia too. I know the previous principal of Frankston Primary School managed to get above average AIMS results from a cohort consisting of basically pure white trash.
I guess the point is that, even though this may be true overall, there are clearly examples where excellent schools have thrived in spite of poverty/illiteracy, and tailoring schools to the demographics of the local area could help millions of disadvantaged kids.