Comments on: News… http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/07/news.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:00:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: tft http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/07/news.html/comment-page-1#comment-1038 tft Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:12:43 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=3370#comment-1038 You "see the social problems created by our inequitable education system as a much more immediate problem" and I am not even sure this is something that can be seen. Your statement seems ill-posed; you assume it is the education system that causes problems like the achievement gap (I assume), but I disagree. The problems we see in school don't usually start there, they start much younger, before the schools ever have a chance to screw things up. We need early childhood education, and a reduction of poverty. Then we can see what our students need above and beyond parents, food, and video games! You “see the social problems created by our inequitable education system as a much more immediate problem” and I am not even sure this is something that can be seen. Your statement seems ill-posed; you assume it is the education system that causes problems like the achievement gap (I assume), but I disagree. The problems we see in school don’t usually start there, they start much younger, before the schools ever have a chance to screw things up.

We need early childhood education, and a reduction of poverty. Then we can see what our students need above and beyond parents, food, and video games!

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