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How can we tap into the potential of all students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds? Sociologist Anindya Kundu invites us to take a deeper look at the personal, social and institutional challenges that keep students from thriving in the United States — and shows how closing this "opportunity gap" means valuing public education for what it really is: the greatest investment in our collective future.
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How to close it?
Make people care + Google. Thats all you really need in 2020. That and maybe a decent mentor.
Public schooling = glorified chilcare anyway.
And if for some CRAZY reason a kid doesn’t want to sit still inside for 8 hours a day against his will, just get the dr to dope him up!
Parabéns pelo seu trabalho muito bom
*My English is not good* and I’m still Watching TED Videos
“I’ve never let my schooling get in the way of my education.” -Mark Twain
We don’t learn, we memorize. Everyday I question why do I go here if I’m not being prepared for life?
Remember when people would be married and have stable jobs before having children. I barely do.
School teaches you how to get a job, not how to live a good life. They don’t teach anything practical like how to do taxes or what social security is.
No. School should not be for teaching you how to do the practical. Thats your parents pr your job. What school should you teach is how to enjoy LEARNING.
We close the gap by burning down the education system in America and start over. Pay teachers what they’re worth and they’ll feel much more invested in their students, restructure the curriculum by focusing on real world skills, eliminate state tests, promote trade schools and don’t give Elementary school kids the idea that passing a test equals success. Simple as that.
Coming from a broken home, WIC baby,.. Schools?
Let’s talk about parenting. No?
Also, dumping money into anything isnt the answer. Not at all. Imho…
Intelligence is also something that is diverse. So expecting the same level of intelligence and success from all people is a lie and immoral.
Wow .,. I see ” that was Great ” and ” we must invest in children” certainly and that was what this was an infomercial for public education. That the answer always is More cash, higher wages more resources. Teachers strikes that hurt Kids the speaker called great and successful, that’s ridiculous. We out spend all industrial nations in k-12 education with the worst results, they dumb down curriculum, and yes teachers even stoop to commit fraud by taking or correcting standardized tests. He portrayed the actions as Noble, truth was the teachers it was reported made a party of it with Wine to make it festive. I look at it this way , I make an investment in a company and in a year it’s not doing better and perhaps is slightly worse, then I am asked to just put in more cash because it’s right on the brink of a huge turnaround and begrudgingly I pony up more, they pray on the poor by using lotteries to increase revenue streams and still come the next year want more from me. Now if this was a company I would cut my losses and bail out, no longer throwing good money after bad. But I can’t not only that I get my personal property taxed to raise more local revenue, then again for buildings and maintenance. Seems there is no end to the costs nor the places they will go to cover them. All the time we are told we have to pay teachers more without the demand that results improve. Lastly the most ridiculous thing he said ” we need more women in science and engineering and more men in Teaching” people should pursue their passion not be socially engineered into a job to make a government quota . This has been tried most famously in Sweden and it is a failure. This speaker is a wide eyes idealist who I am sure believes everything he says …even the parts that he knows are not true or defendable.
Some aren’t meant for a university. Trades are a good option for those types of students.
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
F_ers started that in NL too, just when my son started studying.