Re: [Phys-l] STUDY SUGGESTS NO CHILD LAW MAY BE DUMBING DOWN STUDENTS

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I think the opinion is on the part of the editor of my source  
(Progressive Review -- Sam Smith) extrapolating the results of a  
British study to the US testing (NCLB).

I found the link to the original article is broken.  Here's another  
attempt:

<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080791/Dimming-How- 
brainpower-todays-14-year-olds-slipped-radically-just-generation.html#>


bc thinks the study is valid.

p.s.  Shayer (quoted in above article) is a researcher in Piagetan  
development and "much" referenced.  e.g.


http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mec/papers/journal/19--bulletin2006.pdf     and

https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/archives/2005/09_2005/msg00033.html



On 2008, Nov 02, , at 08:14, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

> The word "may" is used a lot here. Is this a study or an opinion  
> piece? Reminds me of the "studies" showing how comic books were  
> dumbing us down when I was a kid (I'm 64 now).
>
> Bob at PC
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