[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> The resistance is real. I am blessed to live in a relatively small > college community and we have this problem, at least in the K-8 > grades. It is amazing, to me, to see otherwise intelligent people > arguing that it is somehow immoral to improve low ability students' > performace if the upper level kids will improve more. One has to wonder if that's their real intention. I suspect a lot of the opposition is really to the notion of teaching kids to think independently, out of fear that this will result in a loss of control. You do have to remember that in the US, the low voter turnout in school- board elections means that groups with quite peculiar agendas can very easily take over school boards. If only 5% of the eligible voters actually vote, a faction that's only supported by 2.6% of the population can easily win. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
