Real education
four simple truths for bringing American schools back to reality
by Charles A. Murray · first published 2008
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With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America's educational establishment. Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. America's educational system does its best to ignore it.Half of the children are below average. Many children cannot learn more than rudimentary reading and math. Real Education reviews what we know about
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Charles Murray, author of * Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 * Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 * Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Schools Back to Reality * Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 Oh, and The Bell Jar, although that doesn't somehow imply that 1950 was the peak…
on “Taleb is wrong about IQ” ↗…footnoted term paper. And only a small fraction of the population has the IQ to do significant research and earn a PhD. Charles Murray has discussed the IQ prerequisites of educational levels in his book Real Education. The article says, "In the U.S., the big achievement gaps across lines of race or social class open up very early, before kindergarten, rather than during college." Race and class differentials on IQ…
on “Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?” ↗No, because as Charles Murray has explained in the book "Real Education" and in an essay "Intelligence and College" https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Murray%20Inte... , you should have an IQ of 115 to study at the college level.
on “Ask HN: Should everyone get a university degree?” ↗