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This is a follow-up to my first “Economics and Education” post (available here). In it, I compared the weak school culture that many poor schools exhibit to the deflationary spirals that countries in economic crisis often experience. One of the major points I made was that schools could get “stuck in a rut” of poor…
read more »One thing that I’ve observed throughout the year is that students at my school like marking out their territory (theme song for this post here. The Joakim Remix is appropriate too). Like marauding packs of wolves, they stake their claims on various pieces of school and community property. Pencils, pens, markers, whiteout, spray paint–students will…
read more »This is the second in a three-part (maybe more?) series that applies economic theory to aspects of education (introduction in Part 1). ***** I suspect that an ingrained notion exists among CMs that student achievement is a function of expectations. Once a teacher raises the bar for what is expected in the classroom, students will…
read more »This is the first in a three-part (maybe more?) series that applies economic theory to aspects of education. I was not inspired to do this by anyone or anything. I am not “forcing” the connections either. Instead, this series recognizes the fact that when I think of issues in education I often think in terms…
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