TracingWoodgrains
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Storyteller. Pragmatist. Pursue excellence. Cofounder @CenterforEdProg. Eng/中文
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Joined June 2018
Welcome to all my new followers, and thanks for spending a bit of attention on me! I suppose now is as good a time as any to refresh my pinned tweet. If you're wondering what I'm about, this thread is a good place to start.
lore recap for 4k followers. > grow up Mormon in Utah.> strong community, loving family, everything good.> love competition math, love writing, hate school. feel like it keeps smart kids behind.> bounce around schools looking for one I wouldn't hate. never find one.> go to Mormon.
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"They weren't even shy about telling the smart kids that their goal on this test was not to do well for their own benefit but to benefit the class as a whole. They were doing this to first graders.".
When my son was in 1st grade, he started telling us about the big test that was coming up. He said it was really important that he do really well on this test b/c "some other kids can't do as well". Turns out the teachers were pressuring the smart kids about standardized tests.
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the phrase "Equal Educational Opportunity" has led to things you would not believe.
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alright, I've dug too deep for my upcoming article. there is no possible way for me to fit all of the fascinating and/or horrifying things I want to mention into anything shorter than a book, and I keep finding more. condensing this will be a pain.
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A story someone told me on this topic:. "So my experience in this area: I got tracked in 6th grade, but in the worst possible way: we had our year broken up into "villages," divided by test scores and elementary school grades. Except each village had a small group of students.
If I were actively trying to extinguish my children's sense of altruism, compassion and responsibility I can't think of a better plan than forcing them to spend all of their time doing random 'altruistic' chores they didn't choose, and aren't equipped to succeed at.
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put another way:.
Personal feelings for the guy aside, the recent Cremieux stuff leaves a bad taste as, at a base level, it has felt like a retaliation campaign against the Times for using a disagreeable source in covering a popular politician, and against him for being party to that reporting.
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in general I think it’s distasteful to react to true negative information coming out about a politician by digging up every bit of dirt you can find on the person who revealed it. it’s like watching an immune system spring into action. war by other means, I suppose.
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it is purely incidental that my irritation is falling on Supreme Court justices right now, but I'm about ready for a moratorium on "no one says X". someone always says X. just say "we don't say X" and move on
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"Trace is only going on about ability grouping as an excuse to comment on New York City local politics" is the funniest interpretation of my commentary I've seen in a while
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Should people use their talents to improve the world? Yes. Does this apply only to people with high capacity? No. Should school be in the business of deciding who should serve and who should be served? Absolutely not. If a kid is in a school, the school's job is to lift them.
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I get on well with the person arguing this, I trust his good faith, and I never, ever want someone who thinks like him in charge of my future kids' education. People are not assigned debts or purposes at birth. School is a time to build them up, not to use them for others.
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there was a pretty long period of time where I could honestly say I faced more reflexive hatred for being Mormon than I did after I started dating men. then I became more active on Twitter and so by volume it's no longer true but it certainly left a deeper impression on me.
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pictured: Nicholas hard at work in the posting labs figuring out the right way to summon me to a thread
Furries are like Mormons. Lots of people are really casually bigoted against them, but it’s socially okay because they’re really successful. The moment it led to people being fired because they’re a Mormon or a furry, it’d be a social faux pas.
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most principals in the wealthier areas said they wanted to see ability grouping abolished. most in poorer areas did not. on every question, principals in poorer areas favored it more
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in a case that strikes me as an instance of one of the luxury beliefs @robkhenderson likes to point out, principals in poorer areas were much less likely to think ability grouping perpetuated inequality or harmed students than principals in richer areas.
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the principal study had a few interesting bits. it found that most of the principals reported being familiar with the Literature on the topic and knowing academics dislike ability grouping or have mixed opinions
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sweet, got the papers. the teachers they chatted with didn't love it as much as parents but 70% thought it was beneficial, much to the researchers' frustration
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Unearthing Joi (A Baseline of Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning)
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They did a couple of others on teachers and principals and I want to poke at those as well bc I think they say about the same thing. but my usual approach isn't getting me access to these. if anyone can dig them up I will appreciate it. Ansalone, G. & F. Biafora. (2004).
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