When you think about how students are moved through the school system, this makes sense. In elementary school, you spend a year with an entire teacher. It become a bi-directional relationship. Meaning that there is more of a relationship. Moving towards middle school, the teachers have more students, more classes to teach, and less time to get to know the students. The same can be said at a high school level unless students are going to smaller schools.

why? this seems to be like a equity issue, probably the root of the problem?

Why use that ratio? Why not say 16 of 10,000? Why not just give a percentage? Was this done to make it "more digestible" for the reader?

One of the reasons of this must be that funding for STEM/STEAM programs are likely to get cut for schools that are in low-income neighborhoods. It should also be noted that the STEM/STEAM teaching positions are hard to fill.

Who made this a priority?

I would be interested to see the location of this study. Was it for an entire district? a city? a state?

I need to read more about how this is holding up nowadays, with the opening of all the charter schools, losing of funding, and how schools are now more segregated than before.

I wonder if cultural competency has been taken into consideration. I am from CA and I have friends who didn't even know that they needed services until they were in college. The stated the stigma that came with receiving services

where they independent charters? is this another repercussion of the NCLB funding?

Child Find is also not the most accessible.

This is also true when you come think about the incarcerated youth. Many individuals who are incarcerated also had a disportionately high rates of being part of SpEd services.

I think this also reminds us that we need to pay close attention to how and by who students are being taught. I think that a sparse DEI or CLDE training is not enough to combat the deficit language and bias that a lot of educators have.

I would like to have a few words with that man. There is a lot to be said here. One Mexican families do not have a culture of poverty... I just have too many words for this

However, learning can be done anywhere. A trip to the park can be both fun and educational. I think that when those things are said, it is a lack of creativity on behalf of the adults. Have they never heard of play based learning?

there needs to be more intervention done in the primary grades. NCLB was probably the worst thing to happen to education. We are now seeing the ramification of it

An interesting thing to note is that the state of Colorado itself has a huge educational gap, being coined the educational divide. People moving to CO are quite educated but Colorado residents have not achieved the same level of education

it's not ethical. This is what was meant with WMD.

!!! There is more harm than good being done, which would make this app unethical.

Sometimes, it's not even a machine.

But what happens when people think that the models that they use are benign? What happens when people "assume best intentions."

Should we then look to use models that can only be scaled up? Or should that we can adjust to the different needs of different communities?

The fact that this race blindness happened in Texas is rather shocking.

to each their own, their own reality, and all based on their own experience.

!!! the bias, this is why we need peer review!!

the same is done for life insurance policies

yes!!!! However, they don't always work out. I personally love when stats can back up something, like stealing bases, but I know that although stealing bases is statistically not a smart choice, it adds drama to the game. The same can be said with boxing, but when we lose the integrity of sport, it just becomes numbers and playing in the favor of whomever get to benefit from those numbers

what about testing bias? testing fatigue? all of the other outside variables that we have no control for? what was baseline? did it show growth? I have so many questions.

like an unspoken "truth" that is observed by many and not questions because it is in "good faith"

the fact that there was someone in the early 2000s who predicted the crash based on water consumption in a town and shorted stock.

I was just reading about quants in a novel.

I love the title!

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A thing to note is that women of color have been socialized to not rock the boat. From personal experience, in PWI I walk on egg shells, because I know that if I make too much ruckus with certain individuals, I might be blackballed from the entire organization.

This also highlights the fact that for years women have had to have others advocate for them. For example, for Title IX to pass, a man had to "advocate" on behalf of women to say that it was a good idea to begin with.

To read that the "computers were all women," is interesting to say the least, because I personally have seen the biases that students have towards women who teach STEM subjects. One of the greatest feats of the US was built on the backs of women... is crazy.

Intent is always a hard one to try and have a discussion about. Because at work we're told to think that the person was acting in the best intent. But when the intentions are hurtful how are we to talk about them and then get called out. The only way it works is if the other person is open-minded really.

Also, to comment on this, this is the word that is used on legal documents for immigrants. Alien, which until that changes there are going to be no real changes to the education system

Is she alluding to the white savior complex that we often see when white teachers begin to teacher in predominately schools of color.