
TracingWoodgrains
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Storyteller. Pragmatist. Pursue excellence. Cofounder @CenterforEdProg. Eng/中文
United States
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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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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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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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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