Poverty, Attitude, and Complexity

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Charles Nelson[Edit][Delete]: Poverty, Attitude, and Complexity, Explorations in Learning [Edit][Delete] August 11, 2006
Charles Nelson responds to my comments on the consideration of the impact of attitude on student success. And of course I would be the first to agree that student success is a complex matter and which can include attitude, especially as (as Nelson points out) attitude can be linked to poverty. He asks, "in 'priming our children for success,' shouldn't we consider attitude?" Sure. But not in such a way as to disregard the effect of poverty. "Neither should we excuse ourselves from attending to poverty's effects on learning and life." True. But it's more. More...