Comments on: If you don’t know Daniel Willingham, you should http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/07/06/if-you-dont-know-daniel-willingham-you-should/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:32:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/07/06/if-you-dont-know-daniel-willingham-you-should/#comment-11326 Anonymous Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:35:27 +0000 http://www.whyboysfail.com/?p=881#comment-11326 With regard to this interview, I think a key is the attitude of education with regard to this question: Are you trying to sift through everyone to find the potential Nobel Prize winners and educate them like mad, or are you trying to educate everyone? No Child Left Behind is about trying to educate everyone, but I don't think our heart is really in it. The results are like in sports. There are a few great athletes like Lebron James and Tiger Woods. But while tens of thousands watch them live and millions on TV, they are the ones in great shape and the mass of the country is contributing to the ever increasing percentages of the obese. With regard to this interview, I think a key is the attitude of education with regard to this question: Are you trying to sift through everyone to find the potential Nobel Prize winners and educate them like mad, or are you trying to educate everyone? No Child Left Behind is about trying to educate everyone, but I don’t think our heart is really in it. The results are like in sports. There are a few great athletes like Lebron James and Tiger Woods. But while tens of thousands watch them live and millions on TV, they are the ones in great shape and the mass of the country is contributing to the ever increasing percentages of the obese.

]]> By: Background Knowledge and Reading Comprehension: The Evidence Grows at The Core Knowledge Blog http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/07/06/if-you-dont-know-daniel-willingham-you-should/#comment-11325 Background Knowledge and Reading Comprehension: The Evidence Grows at The Core Knowledge Blog Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:35:55 +0000 http://www.whyboysfail.com/?p=881#comment-11325 [...] Whitmire highlights the USA Today piece and get the headline just right:  “If you don’t know Daniel Willingham, you [...] [...] Whitmire highlights the USA Today piece and get the headline just right:  “If you don’t know Daniel Willingham, you [...]

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