Toast Easily

Connecticut officials have begun screening cases after students wound up in court on violations such as for having soda, running in the hall and dressing improperly. “It’s not that we don’t think these things should be handled,” said William Carbone, the state’s executive director of court support services. “We just think they should be handled in the school rather than the court.

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In Texas schools, response to misbehavior is questioned - The Washington Post

Calling the police for kids running the hall.

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Right.

(via robot-heart-politics)

Reblogged for mentioning the Director of the department I interned with back in 2008-9.

In some of our experiments we administered the test of ability by computer, so that we could see how long participants spent looking at different parts of the test questions. Black students taking the test under stereotype threat seemed to be trying too hard rather than not hard enough. They reread the questions, reread the multiple choices, rechecked their answers, more than when they were not under stereotype threat. The threat made them inefficient on a test that, like most standardized tests, is set up so that thinking long often means thinking wrong, especially on difficult items like the ones we used. Philip Uri Treisman, an innovator in math workshops for minority students who is based at the University of Texas, saw something similar in his black calculus students at the University of California at Berkeley: they worked long hours alone but they worked inefficiently — for example, checking and rechecking their calculations against the correct answers at the back of the book, rather than focusing on the concepts involved. Of course, trying extra hard helps with some school tasks. But under stereotype threat this effort may be misdirected. Achievement at the frontier of one’s skills may be furthered more by a relaxed, open concentration than by a strong desire to disprove a stereotype by not making mistakes.

- Thin Ice - 99.08 (Part Two)