Author: Herman RubinHerman Rubin Date: May 14, 2008 14:27
>Citing "The Bell Curve" makes me suspect everything else in those
>posts... "The Bell Curve" is really NOT good science. It's based on
>ideas that lost respect after World War II (and for good reason)!
Whether or not you accept any racial conclusions from
that book, which IS better science than that of its
detractors who keep making unwarranted assumptions,
the distribution of ability is such that the upper
5%% outclass the average, and the average outclasses
the lower 5%%. Our miseducational system tries to
teach all the same.
>My guess would be that, with the advent of the algebra requirement,
>schools are pushing kids faster than they can learn. Kids who don't
>develop a deep sense of numeracy, who move from math unit to math unit
>at too quick a pace, never develop the basic mathematical foundations
>upon which algebra is built.
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