Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2009 4 Comments »
This is where I conclude my series on poverty and education. In the first installment, I discussed overall theory about poverty, and how education fits in to these (not well as a cure). I then discussed the particular actions that a school could take to improve relations with parents that have issues with schools that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2009 No Comments »
I promised a third installment in the series on poverty that started with Why not “cure” poverty instead? and last had Choice is nice, but…
I would like to incorporate some work I’m doing with Sixth Graders, so I’ll be holding back my final post until Monday.
Posted in Policy, Research, Theory on Jan 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
In my first post in this series on poverty and education, I introduced this work by economist Charles Karelis, Economist’s View: Is Poverty Caused by Irrational Behavior? which got to an underlying truth, that when you are poor, you may not be capable of making “rational” choices, because you have too many problems to deal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2009 3 Comments »
From the “I Told You So Department” comes this article and studies:
Exercise Improves Kids’ Academics, by Dan Peterson, LiveScience’s Sports Columnist
I’ll let the article mostly speak for itself but will post this one telling quote:
“Ironically, one of the solutions proposed for raising test scores, the federal No Child Left Behind program, encourages schools to focus [...]
