The Greatest Variable in Education: Benjamin Bloom Revisited

The Education Wars Part V

"What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning." -Benjamin Bloom In this article, we discuss a method of education that elevates an average classroom student to among the top 2% among peers in standard classroom models. Or, more broadly: all students show two standard deviations of improvement in academic skill development. That's not all. The process takes up less time for each student, so sitting still in a chair for hours on end, day after day, no longer stresses children out into oblivion. Does…

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