An Ex-Teacher Made a Video Game That Skewers the No Child Left Behind Act

Re:An Ex-Teacher Made a Video Game That Skewers the No Child... by 1stop on Friday April 10, 2015 @08:12AM (#9353752)

... Except you are factually wrong. The highest predictor of academic success, is the academic success of ones parents. The next highest predictor is the socio-economic status of ones parents (or guardians). This is true the world over, but the research was pioneered in the U.S... It's interesting because other countries have taken the U.S research and started applying policies to fix it.. but the US is still caught up on treating it as a "Schools" problem...

So.. if you levelled the socio-economic part, you'd start a positive cycle of generations improving, rather than the negative cycle of things getting worse.

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Re:An Ex-Teacher Made a Video Game That Skewers the No Child... by huj123 on Friday April 10, 2015 @08:30AM (#9353829)

>The highest predictor of academic success, is the academic success of ones parents. The next highest predictor is the socio-economic status of ones parents (or guardians).

Of course they are, but the confounding factor is genes shared between the parents and children. What do adoption studies say about those 2 variables?

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Re:An Ex-Teacher Made a Video Game That Skewers the No Child... by 1stop on Friday April 10, 2015 @08:50AM (#9353914)

... As I alluded to with the "(or guardians)". Genes have no major correlation. I'm sure there are obvious exceptions with learning disabilities etc. If a higher class family adopted a lower class child, the childs academic achievement would improve.

Conversely if you have super intelligent biological parents... but are raised in a low-socio and low-education level family... your academic results are poor.

In summary: Genes have nothing to do with it.

If you are actually interested in good education policy you should read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_R._House

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