I should add that in terms of impacts on student achievement, in the US these are inversely related to students’ income levels. However, these benefits are unlikely to scale because you're shfiting the worst students elsewhere. "However, impacts were ...
Looking at the US experience it seems that the main benefit for children attending charter schools is that the schools have greater scope to keep out trouble makers. However, the idea that significantly lift achievement appears to be a pipedream. Obviously...
The US has the same issue. People should be a bit more realistic. Gottfredson, L. S. (2005). Implications of cognitive differences for schooling within diverse societies. Pages 517-554 in C. L. Frisby & C. R. Reynolds (Eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of ...
*** obscure the link between poverty and educational underachievement. Mmmmm.*** This obscures the main causes of educational achievement are motivation and intelligence. Unless you are talking extreme malnourishment (or perhaps exposure to toxins in utero...
There are asians who have been here for several generations though and didn't necessarily arrive here from the better off sections of society. If structural discrimination was the problem de Bres suggests I would anticipate their intergenerational progress...
Why are Asians omitted from those statistics? I think you’ll find that they have lower imprisonment and unemployment rates than Europeans. I suppose that means that Europeans face structural discrimination in NZ??
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