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It is a complex problem, what you are really discussing is how the entire education system is designed and the incentives in that system.

Fundamentally Trump is running on what kind of country you want America to be and in particular its societal make-up.

As a successful businessman the current situation is very favourable to you and I don't see why you would vote to change it. You can get access to good people at competitive rates (the best in China and India ~2 billion population). Taxes in the US can be managed quite well as a high net worth individual.

However many people in the US are not in your position and do not like the direction the country is heading in. They don't agree with large scale immigration and being undercut by immigrant labour. They feel the country is losing its identity.

In relation to your issues:
Hillary Clinton will result in more of the same policies. Trump is opposed to common core but you are right he has not given a detailed policy position on education. Trump is a candidate that will 'shake up the system' or at least try to. I have no doubt that the US workforce can be improved and better educated but this is not something that the president can change in four years. This requires 20 years planning with good policies.

Trump is a man who appreciates and rewards excellence and is more likely to implement policies that allow the excellent to succeed and not be held back. Who is more likely to agree with the following book?

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Education-Bringing-Americas-Schools/dp/0307405397/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463385582&sr=1-1

Is this for high school or university?

Anyway, you're unlikely to find anything about the recent law from an academic source - especially one in English. Amazon has a few sources (here's one) that might be relevant, but you have to be vigilant about checking the credentials of the authors. Plus if you buy a lot of them it's going to be quite expensive. Your library might have an inter-library loan program where you can get additional sources.

Have you thought about charting regulation through history? There are many, many sources on prostitution in Japan, especially concerning WWII and anything pre-Meiji. It will help you get your source count up and more importantly, give you a better understanding of the context of where these regulations come from.

My other favorite paper trick is to look at similar situations happening elsewhere. Did someone else pass a similar possession law sometime in recent history? What were the effects of that law. You have to make the conceit in your paper that the situations are not equal (so if the UK passed the law, you have to concede that Japan and the UK have vastly different cultural identities), but it might help you get an idea of what the global perception is about these types of things.

Hope that helps. Good luck on your project.

It sounds like you'd like to do physical therapy, but fear you lack the skillset to see it through. If that's the case and you are interested in human physiology, I'd recommend going with PT and reading the book The Straight A Conspiracy.

If you just want to do PT because you want to get a job where you help people and make decent pay, but aren't that interested in the job itself, then the top posts are probably your best bet. Good luck!

With regard to cooties, there has been some sociological investigation.

Barrie Thorne, a Professor of Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, identified four types of cross-sex interaction among boys and girls:

• Borderwork
  
• Interactions infused with heterosexual meaning
  
• Traveling across boundaries to the space of the other sex
  
• Relaxed cross-sex interactions
  
  The first type of cross-sex interaction, borderwork, reaffirms gender boundaries between boys and girls. This is achieved through the following:
  
  
• Contests
  
• Chasing
  
• Invasions
  
• Rituals of pollution (cooties)
  
  About cooties, Thorne (1993) writes, "When pollution rituals appear, even in play, they enact larger patterns of inequality, by gender, by social class and race, and by bodily characteristics like weight and motor coordination...
  
  In contemporary US culture even young girls are treated as symbolically contaminating in a way that boys are not. This may be because in our culture even at a young age girls are sexualised more than boys, and female sexuality, especially when "out of place" or actively associated with children, connotes danger and estrangement."
  
  If anyone is interested in more information about borderwork, other forms of cross-sex interaction among children, and gender embodiment in children's play and games, the following books are good resources:
  
  The Sociology of Childhood
  
  Gender Play: Boys and Girls in School
  
  All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity

Not an interview but great info.... Check out the book:

Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change
Haenfler, Ross

You don't think increasing wealth -> expanding consumer class -> marketing? And increasing lifespan -> longer productive life -> more wealth for family needs, thus more time to put off earning by kids? It was two sentences, pardon me for not covering every factor in the rise of childhood in explicit detail.

But there were actually a whole host of them, and not just economic ones. Here's an entire good book on the subject.

Freshman year of college I wrote about Straight Edge culture. I took a class by a premiere scholar on the issue, and while I wrote the paper, I blared that album through my awful Apple headphones. A number of students studying in the library had to remind me to turn it down.

Here's the book on the subject, it's super interesting, and one of my favorites of my time in college:

http://www.amazon.com/Straight-Edge-Clean-Living-Hardcore-Social/dp/0813538521

In part. I've also seen quite a bit of research (summarised in this book) indicating that early motherhood can often be motivated by a desire for meaning/actualisation for people who are systemically locked out of achieving meaning through high-prestige careers or education, which is true for many African-Americans and African-American women in particular.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhoIsAmerica/comments/931a5d/dr_nira_cain_is_a_published_author/

https://www.amazon.com/Immoral-Toddlers-Dr-Nira-Cain/dp/1974020436/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

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Nice lead 000, thank you!

It's also possible that the women we've been seeing on the undergrad/graduate level are products of an education system that conditioned them against participating in classes, at least according to a 1998 study from the American Association for University Women:

>A large body of research indicates that teachers give more classroom attention and more esteem-building encouragement to boys. In a study conducted by Myra and David Sadker, boys in elementary and middle school called out answers eight times more often than girls. When boys called out, teachers listened. But when girls called out, they were told to “raise your hand if you want to speak.” Even when boys do not volunteer, teachers are more likely to encourage them to give an answer or an opinion than they are to encourage girls.

Education reform on the pre-collegiate level has done a lot to address this trend since then, but the students affected aren't pre-college anymore. So we could still see fallout from older educational methods for quite some time.

This is pretty much the argument that Charles Murray makes in Four Simple Truths. He suggests among other things that testing services have a huge potential market in testing and certification for occupational, rather than college, fitness. It's an interesting, arguable book

> I think a better characterization of women's role under restrictions is that they had a similar position to that of a child. Highly valued an protected with relatively few obligations but also restrictions and lack of autonomy.

It seems to me that you are viewing childhood from a perspective of the last 200 years. May I suggest an excellent book about how different cultures have viewed childhood in history, and what value a child has had in various historical societies? At the time when I first started studying social history, this book was a real eye-opener of the skewed modern view we tend to have of social issues.

I wouldn't read too much into this. She has a book coming out next week and likely called in a favour from publishing contacts to get some pre-release buzz.

She doesn't give a shit about anything but money.

https://www.amazon.ca/Boys-What-Means-Become-Man/dp/1443442909

ps. Yes, a middle-aged woman seriously wrote a book called "Boys: What It Means to Become a Man"

Unfortunately, Charter Schools are their own bundle of "not really the solution" in my opinion. They funnel funds away from state schools, and aren't a guaranteed bastion of success.

This article is an interesting read on the topic, understanding that it provides only really one side of the discussion, it does bring to light many things about why Charter Schools are not the solution to it all.

I also recommend the book Reign of Error, which is written by a former Assistant Secretary of Education for the US. Her other writing is likewise well informed, but this book deals with Charter Schools specifically.

http://www.amazon.ca/Teaching-Boys-Struggle-School-Underachievers/dp/1416611509

This book helped me a lot with some of my challenging students who were more often than not boys.

And my biggest piece of advice is to set the tone right off the bat. You need to be completely predictable, very fair and consistent. You can be fun but you also have to be in charge. And you can set the tone anew Monday morning if you need to. They'll adjust.

Along those lines, there's a book my gf read a while back that was very good. https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Childhood-Cherubs-Chattel-Changelings/dp/1107420989/

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And there's this as well:

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/B006Q9NI0S

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Basically - there are a lot of things people assume about primitive cultures and societies which are not universal or are outright incorrect.

Yeah, that's going to be a culture shock. What helped me the most was just coming to terms with how I was different (regardless of appearances) and knowing that others were never going to understand.

If he hasn't read the book Third Culture Kids I highly recommend that as an introductory experience for any TCK or anyone who deals with them.

Read about it in this book which I don't have to hand at the moment. Google Books on that book helped me dig up this paper on the subject.

>Well obviously. The point was that it's more likely to happen to homeschooled kids.

Really? Got any data to back that bare-arsed assertion up?

How about incarceration rates, drug addiction rates, rape and assault rates, mental problem rates etc. -- or even more mundane things like marriage rates, and other things that would back up your claim that they are "more likely" to be socially retarded.

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BTW, here's an article on the liberal "DailyKos" site that your claim is bullshit. -- and yes, it is backed up by data, to wit:

>The same article points out that McDowell is not alone in her conclusion. She is joined by another researcher, Dr. Larry Shyers, who holds a Ph.D. in counseling:

>>His studies found that homeschooled children are not disadvantaged when it comes to socialization. He said that those taught at home were more likely to invite others to play with them, they were not as competitive but more cooperative, and they kept their noise levels lower. Homeschooled children also played with peers of both genders rather than with those of the same gender, he added.

> Dr. Shyers’ study went a step further. For his doctoral dissertation, “Comparison of Social Adjustment Between Home and Traditionally Schooled Students,” he compared the actual behaviors of two groups of seventy children from the ages of eight to ten. One group was homeschooled and the other group was drawn from public and private schools. This was a “blind” study, in which the children’s behaviors were evaluated by trained observers who did not know which of the students were homeschooled and which were not. The Child Observation Checklist Direct Observation Form was used to categorize each child’s conduct while playing in mixed groups of children from both sample groups. The homeschooled children were found to have significantly fewer problem behaviors than the children from public and private schools.

The only way that homeschoolers are not as "socialized" is that they are not as likely to be as problem filled as the typical formally "schooled" kids.

As another writer notes:

>>They haven’t been indoctrinated in the same way. They have not been steeped in the popular consumer culture to the degree that most schooled kids have been. They are not adult-phobic and peer-dependent.

>>They haven’t been grouped and sorted according to age and academic track. They haven’t been expected to know their place and stay in the “class” to which they have been assigned. They haven’t been trained to respond to the bell and do assignments [or technically figured out how to CHEAT on them] without question.

>>They haven’t had to surrender their individuality and will to an authority figure who may not have their best interests at heart. They aren’t subjected to judgment, grading, and the bestowment of rewards and punishments without the ability to object or appeal.

>>They haven’t been conditioned to be passive and compliant or dependent on others to tell them what to do or how to spend their time. They are not powerless. They have the choice to remove themselves from bad situations or people and change the curriculum when it’s not relevant, interesting, useful, or meaningful.

knee jerk? The privatization of public education through charters and vouchers has been documented extensively for at least 2 decades.

Here are some links:

https://dianeravitch.net/category/charter-schools/

https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/category/charters/page/5/

https://www.amazon.com/Reign-Error-Privatization-Movement-PublicSchools-ebook/dp/B00BRUQ376

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charter-schools-and-commitment_us_58fbab26e4b0f02c3870eafa

The people privatizing public education are the same ones denying us Medicaire4All. They are the same as those trying to gut SS. The same ones that promote our addiction to fossil fuel.

Conservatives have been trying to destroy public education since it began and now charter schools are their latest mechanism. Instead of fully funding public neighborhood schools, they would rather siphon money towards private schools. They are literally resegregating our schools. That's why the NAACP has called for a moratorium on charters: http://www.naacp.org/latest/statement-regarding-naacps-resolution-moratorium-charter-schools/

Resegregation:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/05/why-southern-schools-are-becoming-more-segregated/528540/

The NLRB has declared charter schools private:

https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/266763/in-the-eyes-of-the-nlrb-charter-schools-are-private-not-public/

and a charter chain in CA defended itself in court against accountability by declaring itself as a private entity that does not need to submit to public accountability.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/06/22/problems-with-charter-schools-that-you-wont-hear-betsy-devos-talk-about/?utm_term=.153d8734e30f

This isnt knee-jerk

Charters also divide communities:

https://dianeravitch.net/2012/08/05/how-charter-schools-divide-communities/

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/chris-christie-red-bank-charter-school-education-reform

As I've read you're story, one question comes to mind:
Did the mother of the child drink alcohol while pregnant?

This could be the cause of the problems in your family. I am referring to the book:

The Fatal Link (2008) by Jody Allen Crowe

HBD

Darwin’s Enemies on the Left and Right Part 1, Part 2 (Blog Post)*

The History and Geography of Human Genes (Abridged edition) – Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
The 10,000 Year Explosion – Gregory Cochrane
Race, Evolution, and Behavior – Rushton
Why Race Matters – Michael Levin

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Intelligence and Mind

The Bell Curve – Charles Murray
The Global Bell Curve – Richard Lynn
Human Intelligence – Earl Hunt
Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence – Robert Sternberg
A Conflict of Visions – Thomas Sowell
The Moral Animal – Robert Wright
The Blank Slate – Stephen Pinker
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature – Murray Rothbard (essay)

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Education

Real Education – Charles Murray
Inside American Education – Thomas Sowell
Illiberal Education – Dinesh D’Sousa
God and Man at Yale – William Buckley
Weapons of Mass Instruction – John Taylor Gatto
The Higher Education Bubble – Glenn Reynolds

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I can't believe I hadn't thought of this, because it's important: Find 'The War Against Boys' by Christina Hoff Summers in your local library, or order a copy.

In brief, there was a survey done by the AAUW that painted girls as victims and boys as oppressors / benefactors of The Patriarchy. This report was a major factor in shaping gender policies in schools throughout the late '90s to the present day. She examines the survey and report, and shows its weaknesses and biases.

What makes you an expert on the subject?

I'm not going to claim I'm an expert either, but as part of my sociology of education course, I've read several books (Unequal Childhoods, The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them, and Ed School Follies) and the gist of what I've learned from them is: 1) There is a huge difference in the quality of education received by children who happen to go to well-funded schools (and therefore probably live in upper class areas, and therefore probably have upper class parents) and those who don't. In other words, class absolutely plays a part in education. 2) The variation in curriculum from school to school/district to district/county to county/state to state is so huge that those who have to move regularly are at a huge disadvantage (i.e. you move to a new district, and that district taught the basics of something in 1st grade, but you were in a different district in 1st grade, and your district planned to teach the basics of that thing in 2nd grade, but you're now in 2nd grade learning the complexities of something you don't even understand the basics of). Poor people tend to move a heck of a lot more due to complications or trying to pursue opportunities. The quality of curriculum overall is pretty poor (in that it's not rigorous or specific enough in a lot of cases), in fact. Which, again, is a disadvantage to poorer people who don't have the advantage of having well-resourced, well-educated parents to make up for lacking school curriculum. 3) The teachers of the teachers are the biggest fuck ups; the set of ideals they have about children make it difficult to properly prepare teachers to actually teach students material. There's a lot of detail to this and I'm not going to summarize the entire book(s), but the focus of our education is more on not "harming" children by teaching them certain things too early or in teaching them things in a "boring" way (not talking about complex stuff here; basic stuff, like how to read). There's a focus on letting children develop naturally, rather than teaching them facts.

So... those are my understandings of what is wrong with the education system. I actually have no doubt that attitudes towards education are an issue, but they're clearly not the only issue. Feel free to provide me with some information, studies, or books I can read up on to give me a more broad understanding of why you think attitude is the only issue. I'm totally open to the idea that everything I've read is bias and uncomprehensive.

EDIT: Added links to the books I mentioned to give context.

It's a false assumption that state testing is important. International comparisons can't be made based off of state tests- you need an international test for that. International tests aren't valid because some countries don't have all students taking the exams. Exams in high school make a lot of sense, but in elementary they aren't necessary.

Standardized testing has been used to paint a picture of American schools as failures even as students are smarter than any previous generation. See this book.

"Accountability" is the buzz word that lawmakers use, but in reality 90% of teachers are working their asses off regardless of a state testing mandate. In any other industry it's normal to have some bad apples. In education, testing mandates which massively decrease creativity and learning for our kids are currently in place because of this kind of thinking (ie teachers can't be trusted to teach without accountability). All of the teachers that I've ever known really wanted to teach. Except for a few burnouts, they didn't want to just coast through their jobs. I don't think it's a profession that pays enough for people to pursue it if they aren't passionate about it.

edit: TL;DR downvoted for using the "accountability" argument.

If anyone would like to understand why people believe there is a satanic element to many child abuse scandals, please read this compelling yet utterly soul destroying account from a boy who was a victim of abuse at the infamous Haut la Garenne care home in Jersey.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nobody-Came-appalling-brothers-cruelly/dp/0007287968/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

I've got you on the "children not being well respected" side of things. From a socio-historical context, you have Mintz and Zelizer both arguing that historical changed to the family and industry have produced a different place for children in society. Basically, childhood was created and children are more a protected class, but largely at the cost of autonomy. I study childhood trauma and don't have anything on downplaying children's abuse, although Frones and Corsaro (part 4) talk about how the hysteria around children constantly in danger from strangers likely masks much mistreatment they actually treat, usually from people they know.

Diane Ravitch is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the US on education. Her book, "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" exposes the fraud of the movement for voucher and privatized for-profit schools.

It is simply a fraud intended to dismantle and privatize all public schools in America. No charter school or private school has demonstrated that it can out perform a public school on a district wide basis without discriminating among the students it teaches. Public schools frequently out-perform NCLB privatized or voucher counterparts.

What public schools don't do is channel taxpayer $$$ to cronies of Texas republican'ts.