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> I can't imagine how a government education program could hope to achieve equality in outcome in the face of education-aware and education-prioritizing parents spending far more time and working with their children outside of school on enrichment activities that improve educational outcomes. Identify children without such parents and provide them and their parents with additional support; it's expensive , but it's t…
I agree with the futility of expanding the current schooling paradigm. I do, however, worry that the foundations are laid before the kids even arrive at kindergarten. How many words of in-person adult conversation does the child hear each week? How many minutes of 1-to-1 direct, focused time does the child receive from an adult each day? How secure does the child feel? What is their nourishment like? What is their sl…
I do think thibk you can cure it immediately, but I think you can narrow the gap a bit each generation; it's a long term project that's doable because the outcomes of one generation are the starting conditions for the next.
And ideally it takes improved non-schooling intervention in the before school years. But if you don't intervene to do what you can in the school years now, you've got a worse starting point than you could have for the next generation.