Why Have r and Reams of Highly Relevant Research Relative to Schools, Education and Learning Conducted Over a Full Century Been Consistently Deep-sixed or Permanently Shelved? To properly answer this question would take an entire book. It will be dealt with here very superficially, due to time and space limitations. To say that there has [...]
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Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it Too (Part 3 of 7)
An Odd Omission: Studies of Important Correlations Between Attendance Laws and Behavioral Science Are Absent From the Literature. Why Have Studies of These Crucial Direct Connections Not Been Conducted or Reported? Research scientists have studied just about everything imaginable with respect to humans and the wide variety of biological, social and other factors or causes [...]
Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it Too (Part 2 of 7)
TRYING TO HAVE OUR CAKE & EAT IT TOO: WHY COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS ANTITHETICAL TO EDUCATION; HOW ARBITRARY AUTHORITY AFFECTS INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIORS & ENVIRONMENTS & WHY THOSE BEHAVIORS HAVEN’T BEEN PROPERLY STUDIED (BRIEF TENTATIVE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS POSED IN PART I.) Compulsory Attendance laws ARE the Problem 1. The humiliating frame of reference a child [...]
Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it too (Part 1 of 7)
TRYING TO HAVE OUR CAKE & EAT IT TOO: WHY COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS ANTITHETICAL TO EDUCATION; HOW ARBITRARY AUTHORITY AFFECTS INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIORS & ENVIRONMENTS & WHY THOSE BEHAVIORS HAVEN’T BEEN PROPERLY STUDIED First the Troubling Questions and Controversial Issues for Discussion and Debate: There is one way and one way only to justify a law [...]
