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Re: Comment on Social Mobility as Slow Today as It Was in Medieval Europe: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA (fwd)
- To: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Subject: Re: Comment on Social Mobility as Slow Today as It Was in Medieval Europe: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA (fwd)
- From: Noelle <noelle>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:33:16 -0700 (PDT)
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> Wanda Tinasky wrote, in response to Noelle:
>
> So do lower-class kids who have been adopted into middle- or upper-class
> families, which sort of torpedoes your argument. That's the whole point of
> Clark's thesis - genetics explains a far greater % of success than social
> factors do.
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> Noelle wrote:
>
> Yes, kids from lower class, disadvantaged families struggle more once they
> do get to college. It's not a matter of being less smart, but more about
> feeling they don't belong in college, they need a large amount of support in
> order to succeed and graduate.