Posts tagged motivation
About moving on.
Motivation is weak because more students (of all races and economic classes, let it be added) don’t like school, don’t work hard and don’t do well. In a 2008 survey of public high school teachers, 21 percent judged student absenteeism a serious problem; 29 percent cited “student apathy.” The goal of expanding “access” — giving more students more years of schooling — tends to lower educational standards.
- Robert Samuelson, on “education reforms”
For more, read here. (Thanks Jim Cavallero)
Can we haz real education reform?
On being successful:
“When you want to get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” - Eric Thomas
Originally from his YouTube channel.
mathematiquesnoir
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Equitable Mathematics Teaching
For my forthcoming book, I reviewed literature on equitable mathematics teaching and extracted the following four...
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Dreams of A Life
For three years Joyce Carol Vincent lie dead in her apartment. She died at 38 and was found at 41. She wasn’t a loner, nor a...
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That kid gets ice cream for dinner! Trufax.
BRB arranging a marriage...
It's the other education. Everything that makes sense within this big conversation but we don't know what to do with yet. The variable bits that people can't speak to as a whole. The dejargoned, unfiltered, quizzical, scrupulous, industrious, and circumspect.
The divisor, the dividend, the quotient ... and the remainder. The Black Mathematics.
The divisor, the dividend, the quotient ... and the remainder. The Black Mathematics.
