CH -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- 比一般人笨 -- 2022年9月23日

 

比一般人笨

截止日期：2022年9月23日拉里·罗曼诺夫

译者：佩罗拉

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EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Dumber Than the Average Human -- September 23, 2022

Dumber Than the Average Human

By Larry Romanoff, September 23, 2022

 

 

Introduction

 

For background, the Boston school system had for many years grappled with the problem of how to assign students to Boston's public schools that could both let children attend one of the few good schools in the system while also finding one close to their homes. They also wanted to ensure that students from poor neighborhoods had the same chance of attending good schools as those from more affluent neighborhoods. The school system was divided into zones where many students were bused far from home but still attended the lower-quality schools. A newly-appointed 27-member committee tried yet again to find a solution but after months of examination and debate became hopelessly entangled in what were largely irrelevancies, and again could find no solution. But a 24-year-old Chinese student named Peng Shi who was in a Ph.D. program at MIT and who was looking for a thesis topic, attended the meetings, asked a few questions and gave them the obvious solution of eliminating their school zones and applying a different model for selection. After some study, the committee voted overwhelmingly to adopt Shi’s model, calling it "a breakthrough moment" for Boston's school system.