tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460967271492760386.post5404099957397630131..comments2024-02-07T02:15:55.587-08:00Comments on Journal of Educational Controversy Blog: A Rational and Fruitful Discussion of the Achievement GapLorraine Kasprisinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01872465453874056191noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460967271492760386.post-25517666529533312322011-02-11T10:31:28.547-08:002011-02-11T10:31:28.547-08:00For me I hate racism. We should treat different pe...For me I hate racism. We should treat different people fairly as possible. How about giving a lot of love and peace to everybody? I think that's agood idea:)Carah Santanahttp://www.numberhelper.com/719/719.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460967271492760386.post-3674146403506534062011-02-08T08:40:12.771-08:002011-02-08T08:40:12.771-08:00This was a moving article and had many good ideas....This was a moving article and had many good ideas. One I would expand on is this: "Give teachers strategies that connect learning with the lives of their students." The authors later speak of complex projects for group work. This is where experiential education can help fill the sense of belonging, community and interdependence we so often lack in our society. Working together, hands on, can help students, especially in urban environments I would argue, find meaning and utility in education as a way to grow side-by-side with their peers. United groups of learners will help overcome educational inequalities by, as the text mentions, allowing mentor roles for students and helping with skills of collaboration, problem solving and leadership (or mentoring). With these skills, youth in urban areas can help to lift their communities from the cyclical plague of defeatism; the test scores will follow. I would, therefore, second the call for high expectations and increase use of complex group projects to aid students in becoming leaders of their community and, indeed, greater society as well. Education is cherished by many for its ability to do such things. There is no reason to let such notions fall by the wayside and allow the 'achievement gap' to be left open and festering.Nathan R. Suttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18140048911257812052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460967271492760386.post-88059741484558548402011-02-05T08:16:13.201-08:002011-02-05T08:16:13.201-08:00I searching through internet and found this away s...I searching through internet and found this away some blog. Thanks for sharing us.Orissa Javahttp://www.rashmiblog.com/noreply@blogger.com