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They Can't See the Page: More Basic Reasons Poor Kids Struggle to Learn
One in twenty students has trouble focusing well enough to read without trouble. How are kids supposed to learn if they can't see the page? This isn't new information. We've known about the "vision problem" for years.In fact, not surprisingly, for poor children this problem, is much worse. Research indicates that:50% of low-income kids have untreated vision problemsIn some underserved areas, the number of children who fall through the cracks is staggering. Optometrists volunteering through the Lions Club found that 47 percent of children had vision problems in schools in West Los Angeles.And...
Mike Rose on McCain on Education
Interview with Mike Rose who wrote Possible Lives and Lives on the Boundary. His blog is here with more comments in the leading po...
ACORN, Organizing, and Education
My writing on community organizing now mostly appears on Open Left. But a couple of my fellow bloggers asked me to write something on ACORN, the national community organizing group that is currently under attack for its voter registration work.The right wing is attacking ACORN not only because of its voter registration work, but because it is one of if not THE most important community organizing groups in America.Unlike other national groups, ACORN generates its membership by knocking on doors, one after the other, not by organizing organizations like churches. As a result, its local membership...
Technology in education: a ground-map, part a (revision 2)
CAC comment: This is an edited version of my original post from 9/13/08, taking into account comments received (thanks for those!) and some further thinking about this topic.For this month's "Monthly Forum" (yes I know I'm late to start this was last month's topic), I'd like to get a conversation going about the role of technology in education. For myself, I'm trying to develop a "ground-map of the province" (if you will allow me an obscure reference to Dewey) of issues related to technology in education. This is part of a project that will result in a...
Intelligence and Genes? Too Many Genes, Not Much "Intelligence"
Scientific American article on intelligence and genetics.Of course questions about intelligence are inherently linked to questions about whether "intelligence" as some single factor actually exists. The genetic data seems to support the general argument that "intelligence" is so complicated and multifaceted that there isn't any such thing as "intelligence." That's my ta...
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