Nearly 2 million people started college in 2002—1,630 of them at Harvard—but among them only Mark Zuckerberg is worth more than $10 billion today; the rise of the super-elite is not a product of educational differences. In part, it is a natural outcome of widening markets and technological revolution, which are creating much bigger winners much faster than ever before—a result that’s not even close to being fully played out, and one reinforced strongly by the political influence that great wealth brings.
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more important, cleavage in American society—the one between college graduates and everyone else.
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The true center of American society has always been its nonprofessionals—high-school graduates who didn’t go on to get a bachelor’s degree make up 58 percent of the adult population. And as manufacturing jobs and semiskilled office positions disappear, much of this vast, nonprofessional middle class is drifting downward.
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high value-added (HVA) teachers — those that do the best job of raising students’ scores on standardized tests.
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while the new research may identify HVA teachers, it’s still not clear what constitutes good teaching.
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There’s one predictor of value-added, which is teacher experience. In the first couple of years, teachers’ value-added goes up quite a bit. Beside that, people who have more-advanced degrees, [have] higher SAT scores, graduated from a better college, are certified versus uncertified — none of these things are strong predictors of value-added.”
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The Weekend Interview with Bill Gates: Was the $5 Billion Worth It? - WSJ.com - 0 views
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Since 2000, the foundation has poured some $5 billion into education grants and scholarships.
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One of the foundation's main initial interests was schools with fewer students.
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designed to—and did—promote less acting up in the classroom, better attendance and closer interaction with adults.
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Can Teachers Alone Overcome Poverty? Steven Brill Thinks So | The Nation - 0 views
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economists Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger, whose work on value-added teacher evaluation has powerfully influenced Bill Gates’s education philanthropy
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teacher effectiveness could overcome those disadvantages
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One-fifth of the middle schoolers in Providence, Rhode Island, for example, entered kindergarten in 2003 suffering from some level of lead poisoning, which disproportionately affects the poor and is associated with intellectual delays and behavioral problems such as ADHD. “It is now understood that there is no safe level of lead in the human body,” writes education researcher David Berliner, “and that lead at any level has an impact on IQ.”
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