> With schools that are unable to perform their education task, one wonders why we have them in the first place.
> One potential solution to these problems is to aggressively segment students into winning and loosing groups based on academic performance. Although doing so has often been met with accusation of racism.
Why stop there? Let's just round up all the kids who can't do Math and just send them to labor camps. Might as well prepare them for what they'll be good for from an early age!
If you read the article, you'll see that the school in question was, in fact, doing extremely well when compared to other schools in the area, before the cheating even began. The use of metrics, as well as the fact that they were arbitrarily or unrealistically set resulted in the disaster (or so argues the author)
> One potential solution to these problems is to aggressively segment students into winning and loosing groups based on academic performance. Although doing so has often been met with accusation of racism.
Why stop there? Let's just round up all the kids who can't do Math and just send them to labor camps. Might as well prepare them for what they'll be good for from an early age!
If you read the article, you'll see that the school in question was, in fact, doing extremely well when compared to other schools in the area, before the cheating even began. The use of metrics, as well as the fact that they were arbitrarily or unrealistically set resulted in the disaster (or so argues the author)