It’s the students, stupid! (It’s the stupid students?)
The new book by sometime VDARE.com contributor Robert Weissberg, Bad Students, Not Bad Schools
, has become even timelier following the recent popping of the test score bubble in New York City public schools.
Weissberg, a professor of political science emeritus at the U. of Illinois, wittily surveys in his conversational prose style a half century of educational research. He debunks the fluff that comprises most of this fad-driven field, while highlighting the replicable social science whose lessons go ignored.
Weissberg’s conclusion: the quality of students‘ intelligence and motivation is by far the most important factor in whether a school is bad or good.
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U. of I., eh? What do you know?
Blithe Spirit 