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Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers
palegray.net writes "According to a new study performed by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, increased emphasis on helping students with a history of lower academic achievement results in lower performance for high achievers. This trend appears to be related to the No Child Left Behind Act. Essentially, programs designed to devote a large number of resources to assisting students who are deemed to be 'significantly behind' leave little room for encouraging continued academic growth for higher-performing students."
In other news, cows shit, grass grows, and pigs still in aeronautical R+D stage.
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It's not so much about finance as it is about making a mass of drones who will never realise you're fucking them over and should revolt. The goal of any government is to have as little people who can actually think as possible, but not to have people so stupid they can't work.
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The solution is repressing everyone who is smart so that they either become frustrated and stop trying or revolt in an anti-social manner at an age too young and are deemed a criminal for life, and to help everyone too stupid to be useful become useful.
All blatantly obvious of course
Siphoning away resources for "no shit sherlock" studies leaves little money for studies that would have provided some insight or solved some dispute.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Makes more sense to invest a larger portion the funds in areas where it will be utilized to greater effect.
The athletic department?
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Tell me about it! I'm always telling my dates that my personality is beyond my control, but they always see differently.
Artificial selection messes natural one. Film at 11.
You should had learned to use Markov's chain to counter it in fight.
rubbing organic garlic on their feet to try to get rid of their headaches
No maaaaan, you apply it directly to the forehead...
how long until
Layne
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
She is, however, allergic to pineapple...
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
So what do you do with high achieving students who have behavioral issues?
>You see these people on American Idle ...
That's just wonderful. Please tell me it was intentional.
You're telling us that you were the smartest kid in school, but that you weren't smart enough to stop the dumbest kid from kicking your ass on a daily basis.
I would measure intelligence as an ability to manipulate and modify ones environment to suit one's needs. Not being able to avoid getting your ass beat doesn't sound very smart to me.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Apply it directly to the forehead? Apply it directly to the forehead? Apply it directly to the forehead? Apply it directly to the forehead? Apply it directly to the forehead? Apply it directly ......... *gouge ears out*
"Hi, I'm calling for a Point-Oh? First name Vee-Two?"
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Garlic: apply it directly to the forehead!
Garlic: apply it directly to the forehead!
Stupid sexy Flanders.
I had a 14-year old and his 16-year old sister in one of my classes during my sophmore year of college.
My first thought was that it must suck not going to school with anyone his age. I wondered if he had any friends besides his sister? Then I realized, when he graduates early, and gets showered in job offers and signing bonuses, he'll be coming back to pick up teenage ass in the ferrari he bought with his own money. He'll be just fine.
It wasn't intentional. It was a nice Freudian slip though.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.