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- From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Magnet schools
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:51:02 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
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- In article <C1DpMJ.7Bw@quake.sylmar.ca.us>, brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >In article <00727750886@elgamy.jpunix.com> elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
- >
- >>I would like to produce Rhodes Scholars as much as anybody. However, when I
- >>see 6th graders who cannot read, I prefer to think that perhaps we'd be
- >>better first getting those 6th graders reading at the 6th grade level, and
- >>only THEN start thinking about producing Rhodes Scholars.
- >
- >If that's where your sights are pointed, then that's about as far as you are
- >likely to get.
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- I think it's the walk before run philosophy. In any case, the Rhodes
- Scholarship is given to so few people, that it would be difficult to
- train anyone to get it. Even if the student quality
- improved, they would probably offer as many Rhodes scholarships as they
- do now, out of economic reasons. For those whose skills need to improved
- to 6th grade level, it seems to make sense to get them there, at the very
- least.
-
- >Oh come on. Lots of people know how to do these things. It's just that
- >nobody working for the schools of education knows.
-
- Who are the people that knows this?
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