retention is surely not the answer - and not for the strawman of self-esteem - but because it increases drop-out rates ( possibly due to many aspects of learning and personality that i bet covary with self-esteem, such as self-efficacy and self-control) http://www.nasponline.org/about_nasp/pospaper_graderetent.aspx furthermore, this is why early intervention has become so important - catching failure at kindergarten and first grade for reading, and somewhat later for math skills is critical to ensuring low drop-out rates, and later ability to master sequential/subsequent information.

this is really dead on, although i have my phd, i still find myself thinking "shouldn't i know more about XXXXX phenomena?' of course, then i go and do the research... maybe that is the distinguishing feature, but then again, i think many of the non-phd folks here do the same.

so to clarify, only wrong about being wrong?

don't you mean your bedroom in your mom's basement?

in the situation of a scary looking stripper at a bachelor party, i just told her i was gay and sat on my friends lap, which by the way i am not, but it worked fine for the moment!

now i need a new periodic table

he can't play a slate? as in tabula rasa? how odd. after 30 years of drums or so, i never played one either. however, i have played tabla...