Quote from: Sheilbh on Today at 12:18:01 PMThere's lots of education reform that in the US and UK have been incredibly successful particularly for the poorest kids. The Blair-Adonis-Gove reforms in England have worked - and lifted poor kids' attainment up more and faster than other groups.
But despite all of this evidence base they are disliked by a lot of groups in more "progressive" education circles. So the government is currently starting to pick them apart and surprised at the amount of opposition and challenge they're facing. I'd add there's something particularly weird in the Education Secretary, Bridget Philipson, talking about how her motivation for undoing the reforms is because of her experience as a child in the 80s and 90s which failed kids from her type of background. She doesn't seem to have noticed that in the subsequent thirty years and with all of the reforms of New Labour and Gove, her old school is now rated as outstanding and on both exam results and university admissions is one of the best in the region.
Having said all that I am fiercely against any form of selection, which is not necessary (and not part of those reforms). I also find the idea of a "gifted" program for toddlers insane and morally wrong.
Quote from: Razgovory on Today at 12:45:37 AMI do not contest that the settlers are violent thugs; I am contesting the that Christian population is "well tolerated" in Palestine. You don't drive out 80% of the population through toleration, a foretaste of a one state solution. The Christian population in Israeli is growing on the other hand.
Quote from: HVC on Today at 12:02:33 PMWait, the left villainizes gifted programs? Since when?I imagine the NYC elections were the reason this topic was brought up. Mamdani is against gifted programs, others are for. Before Mamdani, de Blasio took a knife to the programs. The rhetoric is usually the same old equity one, where someone runs the numbers, and if they don't match census distribution, the program is immediately judged as discriminatory.![]()
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