Comments on: Why high-income students do better: It’s not the velocity but the acceleration

By: Some Interesting Reading | Teaching Software Carpentry

Some Interesting Reading | Teaching Software Carpentry — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:15:22 +0000

[...] Why high-income students do better: It’s not the velocity but the acceleration [...]

By: Can and should schools spur social mobility? « Computing Education Blog

Can and should schools spur social mobility? « Computing Education Blog — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:43:51 +0000

[...] Disturbing but fascinating piece linked below that suggests that the “super efficient” meritocracy of the United States quickly sorts out those with talent, who then marry each other, and over time, the gap between the upper classes and the lower classes becomes more than just opportunity. The suggestion in this interview is that schools can’t really do much to fill in that gap. The piece by Roschelle et al that I mentioned a few weeks ago suggests that schools can help the lower-performing groups improve their performance, but there is some question as to whether schools can really bridge the gap, or will the better-performing students just accelerate even more than the lower-performing? [...]

By: BBC News – Google funds computer teachers and Raspberry Pis in England « Computing Education Blog

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:27:57 +0000

[...] Fincher came to the CS10K Professional Development workshop last week, and I asked her why she thought Google was doing this. She suggested that it’s probably [...]