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LeBron James' STEM-Based School Is Showing Promise (goodnewsnetwork.org)
Last year, NBA superstar LeBron James opened an experimental school that focuses on teaching a STEM curriculum to students who have a higher probability of failing academically or dropping out of school. The New York Times is now reporting that "the inaugural classes of third and fourth graders at [the I PROMISE School] posted extraordinary results in their first set of district assessments. Ninety percent met or exceeded individual growth goals in reading and math (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source), outpacing their peers across the district." From the report: The students' scores reflect their performance on the Measures of Academic Progress assessment, a nationally recognized test administered by NWEA, an evaluation association. In reading, where both classes had scored in the lowest, or first, percentile, third graders moved to the ninth percentile, and fourth graders to the 16th. In math, third graders jumped from the lowest percentile to the 18th, while fourth graders moved from the second percentile to the 30th.
The 90 percent of I Promise students who met their goals exceeded the 70 percent of students districtwide, and scored in the 99th growth percentile of the evaluation association's school norms, which the district said showed that students' test scores increased at a higher rate than 99 out of 100 schools nationally. The students have a long way to go to even join the middle of the pack. And time will tell whether the gains are sustainable and how they stack up against rigorous state standardized tests at the end of the year. To some extent, the excitement surrounding the students' progress illustrates a somber reality in urban education, where big hopes hinge on small victories.
The 90 percent of I Promise students who met their goals exceeded the 70 percent of students districtwide, and scored in the 99th growth percentile of the evaluation association's school norms, which the district said showed that students' test scores increased at a higher rate than 99 out of 100 schools nationally. The students have a long way to go to even join the middle of the pack. And time will tell whether the gains are sustainable and how they stack up against rigorous state standardized tests at the end of the year. To some extent, the excitement surrounding the students' progress illustrates a somber reality in urban education, where big hopes hinge on small victories.
...his ball team isn't.
Table-ized A.I.
angry anti-science racist Conservative talking points, FUD, crapflooded swastikas from unwatched inbred children, etc.
The numbers aren't staggering, but often the exponential growth from last to bottom tenth, sixth, or third is a more important improvement threshold than the move from 70 t0 80, or, 80 t0 90 percentile.
The radicle comes before the tree.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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There are many examples of schools that succeed with low-income students. The problem is they are neither scalable nor sustainable. They are not scalable because they require talented teachers and principals. There are not enough of them to go around.
They not sustainable because the teachers burn out.
The late teacher's union leader, Al Shanker said it best: "programs that are doomed to succeed and be forgotten."
The school system and its idiocy are what's responsible for a lot of teacher burnout. Dealing with that ugly machine is enough to suck the life and joy out of anyone.
Iâ(TM)m also worried that the name behind the school has more of an impact than the teaching style. Iâ(TM)m sure many if not all the kids felt forgotten in the grind of public school, and this school is making them feel special then by that account more receptive to learning.
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tldr; kids who come from a gene pool with an average 82 IQ are never going to be great students, regardless of teaches + funding + etc.
It seems that the magic here is providing the children and parents extra material goods to satisfy their daily existence. I speculate that their parent(s) couldn't afford to fully finance their current kids. Single parents generally have greater difficulty of financing children, than a 2 parent family. In the 1950s, having sex before marriage was quite stigmatized, by both black and white Americans. Society has moved away from that, with negative effects. Still, a study confirming theories of society (such as LeBron's school) is still useful.
Other OECD countries' education systems show that high quality education for *all* their children is feasible. The USA chooses to deliberately under-educate particular groups of children. That's the problem.
I went looking for that quote and could not find it. Can you point me to your source?
Is that a passive-aggressive way to communicate that you don't like the parent's post but can't find anything in it to actually argue with??
The school needed to win in order to keep LeBron attached to it. There is no shortage of administrators going around fixing grades, tests, attendance for blacks. Read up on the Ballou high scandal, or the scandals in the NCAA schools (fake courses, etc).
The motivation for success is strong - even if faked. However, the root of the problem remains with the single-mother black families. LeBron isnâ(TM)t fixing that or the culture that caused the rampant illiteracy.
Make the world a better place. Kill yourself.
G factor is 40-80% heritable and g factor accounts for like 50% of intelligence;
Let's say you're right and everyone in the school lost the genetic lottery we can do a great deal to improve their outcomes and not have to deal with the problems that statistically follow people with low intelligence.
I Promise students were among those identified by the district as performing in the 10th to 25th percentile on their second-grade assessments.
I don't see anything about gene pools here. This will include kids with normal IQ and problems like ADHD, kids who stay up too late, kids who eat nothing but microwave pizza at home. Some of these kids would get put in special ed eventually if they weren't already and if it's a bad program they're pretty much doomed.
Comparing a brand new, well funded school to the rest of the DISTRICT which is run down and broke is a total joke... these kids are still miles behind statewide averages and nowhere near top students across the country. Awesome effort but still totally wasted on the lowest common denominator in the name of publicity for Brondo...
No. He appears to be claiming that dysfunctional school bureaucracy contributes to the teacher burnout cited in GP.
I'm embarrassed. I got the quote from a friend (now deceased) and now can't find it also.
... currently being tested on humans.
It's the lack of "gender studies" and the whole neo-Marxist post-modernist "identifies-as-scholarship" fields. Leaving them out is guaranteed to improve your grade point average, income, and satisfaction with life except for those very few trust-fund babies prone to first-world emotional meltdowns, and they don't bother to study or work anyway.
Tell the world exactly why this is racist. Im guessing it is cutural imperialism because an african american is taking over asian american culture. Or maybe it is racist because whites are forcing blacks to adopt to culture and values of the conquering white imperialsits just to survive
Today everything is racist. It is a cool fun game to think of the occluded reasoning required for white liberals to see racism EVERYWHERE.
And these programs produce nearly 0 talents. Teachers spend 90% of their time on worst 10% students.
I've seen the exact same puff piece story show up on ESPN, Bleacher Report, and most MSM news networks. Did not expect the same vague story here. If you've ever actually seen Lebron James' school, you wouldn't know it's a school, because it looks much more like a fancy museum to himself. All Lebron photos on the wall, hundreds of Lebron shoes on display in the foyer, not much actual science anywhere. So what did they achieve in this case? "Students exceeded their individual growth goals". What were those goals? Were they relatively high or low? What were the actual results compared to other schools? The answer to that last question is "not so hot", so the article quickly glosses over it. Thanks for the propaganda lesson.
Conservatives have problem with physics and astrophysics too.
Liberals don't have problems with genetics. The field of genetics is vastly more than Monsato trying to get GMOs out. Liberals have a problem with conservatives and corporations wanting no fetter on what they GMO.
Liberals don't have problems with nuclear physics. The field of nuclear physics is more than bombs and power stations. Liberals have a problem with holding enough power to eradicate life 100x over, and with conservatives and corporations wanting no fetter on how they run their power plants.
Liberals have absolutely no problem with economics. Only with the libertarian idiocy of free markets where the corporations make up the rules and government enforces them.
And it's EASY to talk about GMOs. What's hard is talking to a conservative/libertard about it, because unless you obey their every idea on the subject, the conservalibertard goes APESHIT and demands that you MUST also be (insert wild extremism here). It's EASY to talk about GMOs, but partisan morons like yourself don't want to discuss it, you want people to agree with your dogmas.
Why did you whinge about partisanship then make THIS load of codswallop up????
And since these are black people, whitey doesn't WANT to pay for THEIR children to be educated, so you retain the MORONIC stance of local house prices defining the school budget. This keeps the poor illiterate and powerless. Since the systemic problems that kept going even into the 21st century ensured that blacks were more likely to be poor, and the massive inertia to removing poverty from your family if you don't have an education FIRST, this is not just a black problem, but it DOES massively disproportionately affect black people.
It's fuck all to do with the parents. It's YOUR fault, because YOU don't want to pay for "other people's children". And if racist, you DEFINITELY don't want to pay for black people's education.
YOU need to change how education is funded.
If you have a problem with helping black people, know that the vastly greater number of whites means that PER HEAD you will be helping vastly more white people that blacks. It gets media attention for a black issue because of the disproportionate effect. But it affects many many more white people.
If you don't like the social ramifications of AGW, you decide that the AGW science is partisan. If you decide that you prefer there to be only two genders, because that is what you remember being the case, you suddenly decide that the medical reality of a spectrum of features, some male, some female, exist at varying degrees in each human, making A HUMAN neither fully male, nor fully female, therefore exist on a spectrum of gender, must be partisan.
And when your side, in apoplexy at a black man getting in power, run on a plank of "We will do everything to make this man a lame duck president", you DON'T see that as partisanship.
Because to you, partisanship is when someone doesn't agree with you or makes a claim you don't agree with.
The biggest obstacle for low income, inner-city students, whom are cognitively capable, is that they enter the school system at 5 or 6 not even knowing their alphabet, or how to tie their shoes. The parents will often drop their kids off and if the kid is sick you can’t even find the parents. They deliberately give bullshit contact phone numbers because “that’s their free time“. They don’t give two shits about that kid except for the first and the 15th of the month. The school districts that implement an early start program, basically half-day preschool, have a better chance of getting these kids up to speed before they enter the primary education levels. And since they either feed them breakfast or lunch, it also guarantees they get at least one real meal a day.
Disclaimer: my wife was an elementary teacher for about eight years and primarily worked at inner-city schools.
That's how the school system works. Students also spend 90% of their time on the 10% of subjects they're bad at, while the workplace reality would require you to do the opposite. Nobody wants to hire someone that's mediocre at everything, what I want is someone who excels at the one thing I need him for, while I don't give a shit about how he fares in the things I'm not interested in.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Womens Studies? Is that the new politically correct term for the courses where you learn how to be a good homemaker?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm all for STEM. But I'm worried that with the over focus on STEM to address past educational shortfalls in that field, we're going to have a bunch of Thomas Massies running around, ignorant of history and the humanities, not to mention the social sciences. See the latest criticism of Buttigieg's technocratic solutions not taking into account the reality of people's lives.
A Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope school?
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yes, Lebron is contributing a lot of money and effort to this school. But it is a public school. Personally, I believe his public support is as important as the money he is providing. But there are those locally that do not feel that way.
The point being though, he did not start this school. It is a public school. He is helping to support and promote it.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
One aspect is also that many of these programs are not a truly random selection of kids; the ones who are attending are often there because their parents care enough about education to try to get them into a better school.
Exactly right. This is the track record for the past 50 years or so. Many many such experiments have succeeded, then accomplished nothing when scaled. Also is the "wiring room" effect where novelty and attention improves performance, but novelty is not permanent, and attention only works when it is not feigned.
Guess what? if you take an interest in your child's education, if ANYBODY takes an interest in your child's education, their scores will increase. All you need to do is show you care, daily, every day, and they will learn better/faster/more because they will be incentivized to learn... any moron should understand this, much less persons of average or better than average intelligence!
"Governments have been dominated by the corporate entities and citizens have ceased to matter in public policy" true in
Primordial soup isn't. At least not in the way you must mean for it to be wrong.
Internet connection: needs money. Computer. Money again. And none of that shit matters because this is about schooling. And schools can only afford what their budget allows. Which your stupid shithole of a system ensures they can't afford jack or shit.
He didn't really open it. I donated some small portion of the money to get it going, the Akron, Ohio tax payers are footing the rest of the bill.
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2018/08/whos_paying_for_lebron_james_n_1.html
The biggest obstacle for low income, inner-city students, whom are cognitively capable, is that they enter the school system at 5 or 6 not even knowing their alphabet, or how to tie their shoes.
How is that a problem? It is normal here (not US) for kids to enter school with widely different skills and maturity.
But if they are "cognitively capable", they soon catch up to their ability level. Something else is going on.
From observation, I don't believe it makes much difference whether the parents have the time or will to help them at home. Correlation, not causation.
Some combination of nature and the culture of the broader community, not just parents.
Sad to see "inner-city" used as a euphemism. Here in Australia, without the same race problems, the inner-city schools are some of the best in the state.
Not up there with the leafy-suburb private schools, but the public high school that covers the city centre is one of our better ones.
inner-city is not a euphamism for race. there are equal number of white/black in the inner-city schools. Inner-city schools are people that live in areas that are mostly zoned industrial. This means the housing is fairly inexpensive. Why its inexpensive is because its not exactly the nicests areas. Crime is fairly high and safety is a serious concern. The areas are usually dilapidated / run down. What they have in common is that the kids are disadvantaged, but its not always because they just drew the short straw. In at least half the cases, they are disadvantaged because the parents are only keeping the kid because it gets them more stipends. They often rarely take care of them, there are social workers permanently assigned to the school system in order to handle the number of cases of neglect. In many cases heroin addiction is the cause of the kids being in this situation. What money the parents make gets spent on heroin instead of food and clothing. If it wasnt for certain programs that require the money to be spent on actual food items like WIC and EBT, these kids would be splitting a can of soup between 4 kids. It has nothing to do with race. Its about, in half the cases, self-imposed poverty because the parents have a serious heroin problem.
btw how the hell can you claim austrailia doesnt have race problems. I was in perth on a port visit on the USS Abraham lincoln. While in port I had a cabbie get out of his car and chase an aborigonie (spelling) out of the park where he was sleeping. He yelled 'get the hell out of here blackie!'. That doesnt exactly scream no race problem.
Celebrity Physicist Michio Kaku is opening a string of basketball camps.
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