Re: education bias

2004-02-25 Thread Reggie Bautista
Kevin wrote: I'm hearing a radio commercial; don't know if it's local or national. The woman says I want a house with good schools. Schools that will make my sons smart. Like Socrates...but without the toga. Smart enough to get into the best schools on the east or west coasts. I can miss the

Re: education bias

2004-02-17 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: snipped some First questions: can a school make a kid smart? I think if she's a good enough parent the school shouldn't matter. I'm sure we could come up with a 3 x 3 truth table with good/medium/bad parents vs good/medium/bad schools and have percentages to see what

education bias

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
I'm hearing a radio commercial; don't know if it's local or national. The woman says I want a house with good schools. Schools that will make my sons smart. Like Socrates...but without the toga. Smart enough to get into the best schools on the east or west coasts. I can miss the gender bias,

Re: education bias

2004-02-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Kevin Tarr wrote: I'm hearing a radio commercial; don't know if it's local or national. The woman says I want a house with good schools. Schools that will make my sons smart. Like Socrates...but without the toga. Smart enough to get into the best schools on the east or west coasts. I can

Re: education bias

2004-02-16 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: Re: education bias coasts? Well, I'm thinking of good schools not on the east coast or west coast, and Rice is certainly a good