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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... Actually upon reading some more, I'm withdrawing my proposal above. Quote:School systems therefore have two options for selecting teachers. Option 1: The first model selects people before they start ... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-26, 1:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... Just stumbled upon this nice paragraph: Quote:In England, for example, almost every aspect of the various reforms was reviewed and reorganized. They reformed “the funding of schools, the governance o... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-26, 1:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... nadiatims Wrote:honyaku Wrote:I would also make it much harder to become a teacher as I know many people who do this job because they cant do anything else. If schools were privatized, teachers would ... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-26, 12:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... HonyakuJoshua Wrote:I think your thinking that education is the "solution" to people with not good enough childhoods is wrong. I have no life now and it is the same for many people like me. I dont thi... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-25, 2:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... nadiatims Wrote:nemuro Wrote:I would ban private schools tomorrow. I would go the opposite direction, and slowly dismantle public education which is basically a monopoly. The private sector would find... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-24, 9:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... toshiromiballza Wrote:In the original 1999 study, all the narrowing between East and West happened between 1992 and 1995. Such an increase within just 3 years is due to a change of the pool of candida... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-24, 8:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... toshiromiballza Wrote:Irixmark Wrote:Yes, except that IQ is not mostly genetic (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2012.07.007). Oh, look what I found: http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2012/09/...arter... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-24, 1:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... That you feel that way just confirms to me that support in the sense of helping disadvantaged kids achieve the same learning outcomes in the school system is what's needed, not affirmative action. How... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-23, 9:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... Yes, except that IQ is not mostly genetic (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2012.07.007). More entertaining, however, is this blog post: http://theslittyeye.wordpress.com/2011/1...-in-china/ The d... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-23, 6:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... Just to forestall anything in that direction: Neither IQ as measured by IQ tests nor determination to keep studying (or for that matter, keep at any difficult task) are heritable. That old view has lo... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-23, 12:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... toshiromiballza Wrote:Chinese children from poor backgrounds in Canada and America seem to do quite well, outperforming "privileged" white children, even. Chinese children from poor backgrounds in Can... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-23, 8:47 am | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... I wouldn't be so pessimistic about missing the five-year window. This paper http://www.public.asu.edu/~tschoell/pape...lychc3.pdf finds that immigrants from war-torn Indochina do equally well regardle... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-22, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ... One of the most effective ways to make positive discrimination unnecessary (or at least, less necessary) would be to distribute funding to schools so that those in challenging, deprived areas get more... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 88 | 14,270 | 2013-04-22, 1:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese novels for the picky reader Post: Japanese novels for the picky reader Zgarbas Wrote:imho he has way more in common with Sabato or other South-American writers than with any other Japanese author I've read. Sean Connery fetishists, retellings of Oedipus, Beatles intertex... |
Irixmark | General discussion | 55 | 16,728 | 2013-04-17, 3:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Passive and active listening Post: Passive and active listening As a thread on learning methods on forum.koohii.com grows longer, the probability of a dispute arising around Khatzumoto or AJATT approaches 1. |
Irixmark | Learning resources | 50 | 11,465 | 2013-04-12, 9:43 pm | ||
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Thread: prepping as much as possible for the jump to native material Post: prepping as much as possible for the jump to nativ... My problem with "accessible" native material was that I found it even less interesting than ploughing through more reviews. Light novels are just not my thing. Variety shows even less so. Good for you... |
Irixmark | The Japanese language | 67 | 12,910 | 2013-03-31, 9:19 pm | ||
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Thread: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch accent Post: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch... I can hear the difference quite clearly, although again I knew what to listen for. I know nothing about vocal sound production and acoustics, but e.g. when you record musical instruments, you can "co... |
Irixmark | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,470 | 2013-03-31, 8:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Nagoya University of Foreign Studies VS Toyo University Post: Nagoya University of Foreign Studies VS Toyo Unive... Well, for what it's worth, Nagoya had a rather cool hardcore music scene in the late 1990s. I quite enjoyed that. |
Irixmark | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 24 | 7,321 | 2013-03-26, 4:29 pm | ||
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Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre erlog Wrote:So, sadly, Dig is ending this week. TBS put the kaibosh on the show, and are changing up that entire block of programming. Noooo! :'-( |
Irixmark | Learning resources | 200 | 212,182 | 2013-03-25, 9:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Doshisha Business School Global MBA Post: Doshisha Business School Global MBA I can only underscore what vix86 has said. Many places are open to field switchers if there is evidence that you can handle the demands of the program. So e.g. a good undergraduate degree in design an... |
Irixmark | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 29 | 10,374 | 2013-03-25, 4:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Buying a prepaid phone in Japan - tricky part Post: Buying a prepaid phone in Japan - tricky part Softbank at least is pretty explicit about the "more than 90-days" and alien registration rule: See point G. at http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/welcome/started/identify.html Or in English: http://mb.softban... |
Irixmark | General discussion | 18 | 9,536 | 2013-03-22, 11:00 am | ||
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Thread: Buying a prepaid phone in Japan - tricky part Post: Buying a prepaid phone in Japan - tricky part RawToast Wrote:If you need a phone for contacts with home, your probably best using your own phone and a payg sim (to avoid a big bill!) Whatever difficulties you have in buying a prepaid phone in Jap... |
Irixmark | General discussion | 18 | 9,536 | 2013-03-22, 10:48 am | ||
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Thread: Doshisha Business School Global MBA Post: Doshisha Business School Global MBA dizmox Wrote:Quote:When a Japanese company or foreign company in Japan wants MBA skills, they typically select a promising employee and then send them to business school paying for the whole thing. Do... |
Irixmark | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 29 | 10,374 | 2013-03-19, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: How to get a job in astronomy / cosmology / astrophysics Post: How to get a job in astronomy / cosmology / astrop... dizmox Wrote:Weren't you asking about becoming a quantitative analyst just a while ago? S: I'm not in physics, but I have a former classmate who went into quant finance after completing his PhD in ast... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 21 | 4,442 | 2013-03-15, 4:18 am | ||
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Thread: Learning kanji while high Post: Learning kanji while high Smoking weed every day isn't going to be healthy, whether emotionally, mentally or physically speaking. But then drinking more than 1-2 glasses of wine every day (less if you're a woman) is also defin... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 34 | 9,012 | 2013-03-15, 3:44 am | ||
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Thread: Vocab - Learning sentences vs. learning words Post: Vocab - Learning sentences vs. learning words It's not an either-or question. Some words are easily learned as vocabulary only, because the English meaning matches the Japanese meaning perfectly. Others, and that includes such common words as "面白... |
Irixmark | The Japanese language | 35 | 8,373 | 2013-03-14, 5:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning kanji while high Post: Learning kanji while high No, you'd have to randomize at least the days, and then we would only know how it works for you... but that's at least something. The alcohol thing also only seems to work for math problems, I'm not s... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 34 | 9,012 | 2013-03-12, 4:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning kanji while high Post: Learning kanji while high You should at least randomly pick the days when you light up before your reviews, collect the data, and then we can calculate if there's a statistically significant difference in the mean numbers of c... |
Irixmark | Off topic | 34 | 9,012 | 2013-03-12, 8:54 am | ||
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Thread: What can I expect? When did it click? Core 2k/6k Post: What can I expect? When did it click? Core 2k/6k Some time after Core 6k and KO2001 and perhaps a thousand extra words here and there I could read 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド and only look up a few dozen sentences in the English version. Slowly, like 10-2... |
Irixmark | The Japanese language | 66 | 13,886 | 2013-03-07, 11:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Core 2k/6k: Is only Production bad? Post: Core 2k/6k: Is only Production bad? Alternatively you can do it like this (using s0apguns example) if you want to train listening comprehension and active kanji recall: Front: (sentence audio plays) かくち [write the word in question i... |
Irixmark | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,515 | 2013-03-06, 1:55 pm | ||
