Comments on: High End Problems http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/15/high-end-problems/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:10:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: vital core http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/15/high-end-problems/#comment-2260 vital core Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:05:43 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=314#comment-2260 Sorry, that's a busted link above. Try <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Sorry, that’s a busted link above.

Try this.

]]> By: vital core http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/15/high-end-problems/#comment-2258 vital core Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:53:54 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=314#comment-2258 This effect, "shifting to the mean," occurs in every institutional school setting. It's merely exacerbated in inner-city schools. This problem is universal to public school. Any intelligent child in public school, regardless of black or white, city or suburbs, rich or poor, is confronted with some harrowing facts: 1) he is statistically likely to have a considerably higher IQ than his teacher, even by middle school 2) he will by definition be bored with the material 3) he will be receiving the same message, over and over: no matter what he does, no matter how hard he works or how much he learns, he simply cannot improve his lot one inch; that is, he cannot graduate early, learn the material and finish - he's stuck, and school and even learning seem utterly meaningless and highly negative... 4) he will not fit in well with his lower-IQ peers A good article that explores these issues can be found <a href="why nerds are unpopular" rel="nofollow">here</a> This effect, “shifting to the mean,” occurs in every institutional school setting. It’s merely exacerbated in inner-city schools.

This problem is universal to public school. Any intelligent child in public school, regardless of black or white, city or suburbs, rich or poor, is confronted with some harrowing facts:

1) he is statistically likely to have a considerably higher IQ than his teacher, even by middle school
2) he will by definition be bored with the material
3) he will be receiving the same message, over and over: no matter what he does, no matter how hard he works or how much he learns, he simply cannot improve his lot one inch; that is, he cannot graduate early, learn the material and finish - he’s stuck, and school and even learning seem utterly meaningless and highly negative…
4) he will not fit in well with his lower-IQ peers

A good article that explores these issues can be found here

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