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Everything Important In Life Depends On Your Ability To Answer This Kindergarten Question
Business Insider ^ | 10/01/2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 10/01/2010 8:13:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Harvard Professor Raj Chetty and a group of other researchers have performed a much-discussed study (via Gene Expression) that looks at what factors really affect things like income, your likelihood to own a home, and odds of getting married.

The most startling thing they found?

Your score on a very basic kindergarten test is a HUGE predictor. Other educational factors like class size and the quality of your teachers aren't nearly as important.

Given the renewed interest in educational policy in America right now, it's fascinating.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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To: listenhillary

LOL....3,000 replies to Laz would hit it! ROFLMAO!


101 posted on 10/01/2010 9:37:00 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: goodwithagun

I learned via whole word recognition - I wouldn’t call it memorization — and was also able to understand the sound value of letters.


102 posted on 10/01/2010 9:37:16 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: BlueLancer

That was also my interpretation.


103 posted on 10/01/2010 9:39:45 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: DCBryan1

He’s been a busy lad. Or maybe just busy in his imagination.


104 posted on 10/01/2010 9:40:32 AM PDT by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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To: dfwgator

Or if his father was a party aparatchick.


105 posted on 10/01/2010 9:42:08 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: SeekAndFind

IATEF (in after the epic fail) by BlueFlag ;)


106 posted on 10/01/2010 9:42:51 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: kabumpo

The school system in which I teach uses whole-word memorization. That’s great that you also learned phonics, but our students are not also taught phonics. So little Nevaeh (yes it’s heaven backwards) learns that hat is hat and not a series of sounds. She memorized this and knows hat every time she sees the word. Then in fifth grade the word memorization stops. In sixth grade Nevaeh sees the word excited and doesn’t know how to pronounce it because she never memorized the word. She doesn’t know any of the phonics rules that go along with sounding out words. She does not adapt because what is the use? She’ll just get passed on anyway. We do have graduation rates to follow! My juniors and seniors can hardly read. They read at about a fifth grade level, which is when their whole-word memorization program stopped.


107 posted on 10/01/2010 9:52:15 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

That’s crazy! My sons learned phonics AND sight words. Our spelling and vocabulary curriculum all the way through high school reinforces sight words and phonics. My youngest (8) can sound out new words and gets them right about 95% of the time.

My hubby is community business partner with a couple of schools and had a long talk with one of the assistant principals the other day - the guy was asking all about homeschooling - refuses to put his kids in public school.


108 posted on 10/01/2010 10:01:31 AM PDT by justsaynomore (Please help us put Herman over 30K fans - www.facebook.com/THEHermanCain)
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To: RobRoy

Haha!


109 posted on 10/01/2010 10:02:47 AM PDT by cajungirl
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To: Lazamataz

You hit on me till I told you how old I was!


110 posted on 10/01/2010 10:05:27 AM PDT by cajungirl
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To: RobRoy

I always wanted to be the one who turned in their test first, I wasn’t as concerned about how many I missed as long as it was only one or two.

I was more of an ‘early bird gets the worm’ instead of the ‘second mouse gets the cheese’ kind of guy.


111 posted on 10/01/2010 10:22:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
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To: goodwithagun

“The school system in which I teach uses whole-word memorization.”

Thank you for the flash back to my mother’s rantings ;) She was a reading specialist and pioneer...if that wasn’t obvious from my earlier post about reading Time Magazine aloud at age 4.


112 posted on 10/01/2010 10:37:01 AM PDT by pops88
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To: goodwithagun

I didn’t learn phonics in school. I started reading when I was four. The children in tour classes are having problems because they aren’t reading enough and aren’t being taught to think.
I never memorized words in my life.


113 posted on 10/01/2010 10:39:15 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: goodwithagun

She didn’t see the word “excited” till sixth grade?
I was reading Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, and Kipling in 5th grade.


114 posted on 10/01/2010 10:47:31 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: goodwithagun

“My juniors and seniors can hardly read. They read at about a fifth grade level, which is when their whole-word memorization program stopped.”

Reminds me of a funny story. When I lived in New Zealand I homeschooled. My neighbor had been a teacher. She was nosy and so very concerned about my daughter’s reading level. After much pressure, I finally said, “fine, test her.” My daughter was 5. She tested beyond the highest grade level. My neighbor shut up after that and quit complaining about homeschooling.


115 posted on 10/01/2010 10:58:33 AM PDT by pops88
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To: kabumpo

“I was reading Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, and Kipling in 5th grade.”

My 5th grade teacher took a book away from me and reported it to my parents because she thought it was too advanced :( I knew what birth control was...sheesh.


116 posted on 10/01/2010 11:01:44 AM PDT by pops88
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To: pops88

Our son is two, and we plan on homeschooling him.


117 posted on 10/01/2010 11:04:15 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Blueflag
“duk” —> “kup”


118 posted on 10/01/2010 11:06:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: Blueflag
“duk” —> “kup”


119 posted on 10/01/2010 11:07:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: Blueflag
“duk” —> “kup”


120 posted on 10/01/2010 11:07:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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