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Also check out: Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom https://www.amazon.com/dp/047059196X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_LikuBbKHFMTMF
I’m reading a great book about this: The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
What would be better than assigning homework is assigning sleep. If you’re able to sleep better on the weekend and after school, you will be more engaged and more likely to learn. Homework is straight up counter productive. The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738211117/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_88NMJJYY7YNHFGAY53TR
I recommend The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need: 600 Examples of Academic Language to my undergrads. It's in American English. This website is a phrasebank in British English.
Umberto Eco wrote a fantastic book called <em>How to Write a Thesis</em>. Chapter 5 of the book might be what you're looking for where he covers how to write so you have a more elegant thesis / essay. There's an excerpt for that chapter here
> And obviously, particularly in a hierarchical capitalist system, it would not be possible for every family to afford tuition fees for private schooling, which would very significantly disadvantage a large proportion of youth.
I stopped reading at this point. Up to here your post was riddled with errors, but once you make the completely unjustified jump from "some people wouldn't be able to afford tuition" to "obviously that would be a large proportion," I don't see much point in reading further.
For the record there are lots of options besides the for-profit corporate organization you're imagining, which capitalist ideologues entirely support, and many ways to provide education to even the poorest people without violating anyone's property rights.
There's a great book on real world private schools serving the poor and how they stack up to the real world implementation of public schools in those areas: The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People are Educating Themselves.
This book is deceptively simple, and didn't necessarily teach me any one thing I didn't already know, BUT it emphasized HOW, WHEN, and WHY to use each technique, and my writing has immensely improved as a result.
I've recently read through the book "They Say/I Say", and it's a book that was literally written to answer this exact question. If you don't have time for the book, there's a great summary of the templates it presents (and the reasoning behind them) at this link here.
Pretty much guarantee if you use that list as a checklist and ensure you're covering those points you'll end up with a strong section.
There’s a lot here, and I think the best I can do for you is offer you the source of my answers instead of trying to poorly translate them myself.
I think nearly everything you’re curious and concerned about is addressed in Dan Willinghams book, one of the best books about learning I’ve ever read: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Students-Like-School/dp/047059196X
Welcome! I am just halfway through my Social Psychology BA program :) This book has been extremely helpful for writing research papers. Also, powerthesaurus.com., grammarly and online APA citation generators. After writing so many academic research papers, choosing fresh language and sentence flow can become tiresome. Even after you get the hang of citation formats and paper organization, it’s just nice and handy to have those little helpful tools! You will do great!
The Book is called "The Exoneration of Emma, Joseph, and Hyrum" by Ronald Meldon Karren. It can be found here https://theexonerationofemmajosephandhyrum.com/ or here https://www.amazon.com/Exoneration-Emma-Joseph-Hyrum-Part-ebook/dp/B07728CX7N
I own and have read the physical copy. I don't recall enough of the theory off the top of my head to give you an accurate explanation, I can get back to you on that tomorrow. It is late here. I'll still be on for awhile, but don't feel like dragging down and rifiling through the book at the moment.
> i'm genuinely not trolling.
seemed like it might be when you accuse me of not giving the name of the book...in response to a comment where i give the name of the book in literally the same sentence where i even referenced a book, and accuse me of belonging to a cult...then accuse me of trolling and reffering you to a footnote elsewhere in the thread, when i really just reffered you to the very comment you responded to that you seemingly just not read very well.
but, alright then.
> are you trans?
Yes, I am trans. although, John was never actually my name. was just an alias I went by long ago, and no longer even identify with, but alas Reddit does not allow one to change their name
I'm a bit of a neophyte, but a lot of folks found Eco's <u>How to Write a Thesis</u> helpful. I found it helpful for smaller reading and writing projects.
I am reading Why Don’t Students Like School? by Willingham. He talks about how important background knowledge is to critical thinking. Phones in our hands is no substitute for a solid knowledge base which includes facts that need to be memorized. Amazon Link to book
Yes, state would not educate anybody under capitalism. It is not state's job. But you are not providing any evidence or justification that people would go uneducated. It is quite clear in today's america that many people value education so much and consider the government one so abhorrent that they are willing to pay for it twice. There is also no reason to think that the poorest would not want to get educated as is documented nicely for example here.
There are very few things that capitalism would claim it does equally and education is definitely not one of them and that is a good thing.
> Wait why should public schools compete schools compete when they're all funded by the same organization, we the people.
Guaranteeing funding for those public schools even when they do a terrible job, and in fact people urging increased funding to bad schools, is exactly why those terrible schools are so terrible.
> Seems like a great way to allow rich people to bus their kids to a better school, leaving poorer kids in the lurch.
The beneficiaries of school choice policies are generally poor students. Rich people can get good schooling for their kids regardless of whatever policies you want to put into place to stop them.
> What I want is a national per capita spending mandate on all public schools. No more of this being tied to property tax bullshit.
The problem in education is not that not enough money is being spent. Many terrible schools already spend more per student than tuition to very good private schools cost. More guaranteed spending would not fix the problem. In fact I think it would just make it worse.
There's a very good book, The Beautiful Tree, that compares public schooling in the third world to a fascinating phenomenon of low cost private schools. These are "low cost" in the sense that they serve people who are near the world poverty line of living on $1.90 per day, not American poverty. In some cases the schools are actually illegal. And yet the education researcher who wrote the book conducted testing of these schools and found that they do better than the better funded, 'free', public alternative. And, hey, the Kindle edition is only ~$1.90 on Amazon.
Unfortunately, I think logic has very limited usefulness for this sort of thing. In many logic books, the first chapter or two discusses very general concepts related to arguments (premises, conclusions, soundness, validity, etc.), and there may be some exercises where you extract a formal argument out of a paragraph. But after that, many logic books start getting into technical topics that really have nothing to do with argument analysis or writing.
I think you'll find more value in books/guides that are specifically about writing a thesis or research project. For example, there's Umberto Eco's How To Write a Thesis.
You might also be interested in books like What is the argument? which includes lots of "argument diagramming."
If you really want a book that's specifically about logic, then I think books on informal logic are going to be most helpful to you. Unfortunately, I don't know much about informal logic, so I don't have any particular book recommendations.
Use an academic phrasebank - or even better, make your own.
A phrasebank is a list of ways that professionals say various things...how they say who was in the participant pool, how they say that two groups were the same, and so on. You can find them online or buy a book of them.
The cost-to-benefit ratio is excellent.
What country has private education industry?
That sounds like a statist system though, where kids are forced into government schools and parents and non-parents are forced into paying for them and only those who can afford both to pay for government school and an expensive private school, expensive because government has crowded out cheap private schools, can go to private school. And then there’s the lack of innovation in pedagogy and curriculum and teaching materials that poor and rich students can’t benefit from.
https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Tree-Personal-Educating-Themselves/dp/1939709121/ref=nodl_
Here's a book that more or less sums it up: https://www.amazon.com/Black-American-Students-Affluent-Suburb/dp/080584516X
I agree with you on two points: 1. The condition blacks are in today is due in large part to being enslaved for ~100 years, then being subject to institutional racism for another ~100 years. 2. There are still people who hold positions of power that who knowingly or unknowingly hold black people back.
After that our agreement ends. The position and opportunity of black people in society today is better than it has ever been. If they had the culture of Asians or Jews they could easily outpace white people in every metric. Further, whining and blaming everything on "white racism" will hold black people in the ghetto forever. Your viewpoints are actively oppressing African Americans.
You're just spamming the sub now with this. Repeating the same things and not advancing your position.
Nor are you responding to my questions so that we can have a rational discussion by establishing what is "racism and privilege" exactly and how it pertains to the city.
Because right now it's all this fuzzy notion that makes excuses far too easy. Talking to you really does remind me of a good will hunting secene. I even brought up Howard Zin for cryin out loud.
Anyway, Perhaps something like John Ogbu's study <em>"Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement"</em> would be of benefit here.
Otherwise this is isn't going anywhere and it's clear that no amount of reasoning is going to change whatever some militant BLM mantra crept into your mind.
Evidence shows the differences in academic aptitudes among races are so small as to be negligible. The same is true about gender where females tend to be very slightly better at some tasks on average ... but who cares. It's negligible on average and says nothing about any individual.
The problems with inner city schools that you mention are primarily socio-economic and also cultural (see Shaker Heights: https://www.amazon.com/Black-American-Students-Affluent-Suburb/dp/080584516X ), not genetic.
I think you are arguing that teachers should be evaluated based on growth rather than proficiency.
Yeah, that's a tricky one. My impression is that many schools and colleges have adopted <em>They Say, I Say</em>, which encourages the use of first person. But many teachers are under the impression that first-person pronouns are bad, though I imagine most of them would be hard-pressed to explain why they are so bad. I can see why the convention exists in science writing and a few other contexts, but it seems silly to proscribe first-person pronouns in an essay that's asking for a student's opinion. I have found in my own classroom (I teach research to high school freshmen) that certain parts of the paper become much clearer and more natural when the students write in first person.
Anyway. As for avoiding it: most of the time you can just cut the "I believe" or "I think" or "I feel that", and keep whatever comes after it. E.g.
- ~~I feel that~~ Spotify should find a way to pay musicians more fairly.
- But ~~I think that~~ the amount of money a musician earns should be based on the number of listeners they attract to the device.
I also recommend checking out the book I mentioned above. It contains tons of templates that are quite useful to students, and not all of them involve first-person pronouns. If you Google "they say I say templates" you'll find PDFs of those templates. I have also used some of the sentence stems from this website.
If you're interested, I suggest you check out The Homework Myth (which delves specifically into the research) and/or The Case Against Homework (which is a bit lighter and focuses more on what to do about it). They might give you some arguments/ammo to help you reduce or eliminate your kid's (utterly counterproductive) homework load.
You don't say what the homework load actually is, but if you don't want to argue for no homework, you might have success reducing the load by pointing out that both the NEA and National PTA recommend no more than 10 minutes per grade level; that would be a max of 20 minutes per night if your daughter is going into 2nd. (As one or both of the aforementioned books note, this 'rule' was entirely made up because it sounded good and is not actually based on any research [the research finds elementary school homework useless], but if it's the best practical way to reduce the load, go for it.)
You really, honestly should. Especially if you take your interest in sociology seriously. It would be like not reading The Bell Curve (which a bunch of people disagree with)
https://www.amazon.com/Black-American-Students-Affluent-Suburb/dp/080584516X/
Quite a few years ago I read "The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn. The details escape me, but I remember being convinced enough to avoid setting any more homework myself & to convince the primary school where I was governor to go for homework which supported better intra-family communication.
It has been noted that voluntary immigrants (whites, asians) do far better than most involuntry immigrants (most african americans, native americans).
Hey marcusesses, I'm going to recommend you another book, if you haven't already stumbled across it: Daniel Willingham's Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom.
My copy of the book is a little hard to read... something about the combination of tiny font and a bit of a convoluted writing style, but the information jam-packed into the book is actually research-based, and yet imminently practical. Also provides a refreshing counterpoint to some of the supposedly 'brain-based' teaching practices that sound great (who doesn't want to "strengthen neural pathways"?!) but which aren't really based on a thorough understanding of the brain (e.g., strengthening neural pathways you don't use for a specific task won't help you complete that task; it's a bit like trying to fix a pothole-riddled road by repaving all the other streets in the neighborhood).
(Don't mean to pick on the article, BTW... much of it was interesting, and I especially liked the section on Emotion Dynamics -- I literally just posted a comment yesterday about how emotions and thought are "radically interconnected.")
>Of course, poverty helps with ignorance.
Too true. But poverty itself isn't the cause of ignorance, or at least doesn't require permanent, intergenerational ignorance, and religion does. Take a look at <em>The Beautiful Tree</em>. I don't agree with all of the books conclusions, but poor people striving to educate themselves and their children has to strike fear in every theist.