Artikel John Derbyshire over Onderwijstheorie in de VS

Wellicht vinden forumlezers het volgende artikel van John Derbyshire over educatie en onderwijstheorie in de V.S.

Derbyshire is een knarse reallo-conservatief van het slag Theodor Dalrymple – en dient derhalve hier en daar met een korrel zout gelezen te worden.
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…. the college racket, a vast money-swollen credentialing machine for lower-middle-class worker bees. American parents are now all resigned to the fact that they must beggar themselves to purchase college diplomas for their offspring, so that said offspring can get low-paid outsource-able office jobs, instead of having to descend to high-paid, un-outsource-able work like plumbing, carpentry, or electrical installation.

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A very good rule of thumb when reading child-development literature is that any study that has not taken careful account of heritable factors—by comparing identical twins raised together or separately, fraternal twins ditto ditto, non-twin siblings ditto ditto—is utterly and completely worthless. That sentence is (a) true, and (b) guaranteed to get you thrown out of a high window if spoken aloud at any gathering of education theorists.

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