Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while there were a few brave souls that showed up early to smash RPI's self-esteem, those folks were still the bulk of the Harvard noise by the time the game started...
First, it is a glaring fact that the lowest scorers on self-esteem exams, white girls, happen to be the highest achieving group in the country. They get the best grades and attend college in higher numbers than any other group. To reinforce this point, the highest scoring group on the AAUW's survey was Black males, the group most educationally at risk. It seems that self-esteem and actual success are negatively related...
...problems in schooling are not self-esteem, but fundamental skills, not with girls, but with boys, specifically Black boys. As long as teachers are able to turn their backs to the real problems in the name of improving self-esteem we will never see any improvements. This brings me to my final point, the role of the teachers...
...Self-esteem, I will not deny, is a powerful and important force, and important force, and, when taught correctly, can be very useful. However, in the face of evidence that tells me that many teachers cannot even teach what they are supposed to teach, I find it hard to believe that they can teach self-esteem in a productive way. Self-esteem has caught on like wild-fire in the educational establishment, and I will venture to say that this is because it is easy to teach: it is a lot easier for a teacher to tell a child that...
...teacher who may have had only minimal success in teaching academics, can gain accolades from his or her colleagues because of his or her students' self-esteem. Knowledge steps aside for pride...