Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Do Dumb Parents Birth Dumb Teens or What?

Here is a chart that with teenager IQ compared to teenage spanking. On average, parents who beat their teenage children have children with below average IQ.  Do you suppose this is genetic or environmental? Do dumb people beat their kids or do angry people beat the good sense out of kids?  


Monday, September 14, 2009

Early Education

"Preschool activists consider Georgia and Oklahoma model states because they have long running, fully implemented, universal preschool programs that proponents consider to be high quality…. The real-world evidence demonstrates that, at the same time [these] preschool programs have been massively expanded and their quality… has supposedly improved, the test scores of children in Oklahoma have eroded significantly compared to the national average. And while Georgia’s reading gap narrowed, its math gap stagnated or widened."  Adam Schaeffer--Cato Institute