Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by boomchinolo78 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @12:41PM
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This is terribly sad! Almost satire
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by walterbell on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:08PM
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Amazing! Any articles on that school?
Not that I've been able to find --- it would have been the school local to Columbus AFB in the late 1960s to mid 70s.
The State Supreme Court stuff is my hazy recollection of letters my parents received from other folks who were still living there when the school system was changed.
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by walterbell on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:56PM
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Looks like other cases were ongoing even in 2002, https://www.cleveland19.com/story/1045614/ohio-supreme-court...
That's quite a different thing though --- this was not a matter of funding (save that there wasn't money set aside to send students who didn't get a college degree with their high school to college after graduation) but of how the school was structured and how students were taught.
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by walterbell on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:03PM
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That 1960s court ruling would be worth reading, to see how it was rationalized, and for discovery of related legal cases. LexisNexis or an LLM might be able to find it.
The court case should have been late 70s, early 80s --- as it was explained to me, it was ruled as unfair that some children got a college education, while others who graduated from the same school had to pay for college
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by walterbell on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:07AM
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ChatGPT didn't find any cases, but offered this:
There were debates about whether military children attending base schools were receiving benefits not available to children in the local civilian school systems. This issue could have come up in various ways, such as in cases where military dependents might have access to college-level classes or subsidized education while local students did not.
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by johnnyanmac on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @02:35PM
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>conferred an unseemly advantage on the students who were able to take advantage of it,
Meanwhile private school...
Its all crabs in a bucket. Instead of suggesting that more schools do this to boost education, let's tear town the successful ones and pretend we're a meritocracy.
There was a 4 year cap up through the 8th grade (so I was a 4th grader attend 8th grade English, math and science classes), and after that, the cap was lifted and students could begin taking college courses in 8th grade --- some of the teachers were accredited as faculty at a nearby college, and if need be, arrangemetns were made for students to travel to the college, or professors from there to travel to the school.
It was not uncommon for students to graduate from high school and simultaneously be awarded a 4 year college degree.
Apparently, the Mississippi State Supreme Court declared the system illegal because it conferred an unseemly advantage on the students who were able to take advantage of it, with no equivalent compensation for students who were not.