At-Promise Students: IHE article

[polly_mer]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/05/changing-conversation-about-"-risk"-students-california

Does changing the term fix the underlying problems?

[Hibush]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/05/changing-conversation-about-"-risk"-students-california

Does changing the term fix the underlying problems?

Does changing the term ever fix problems? Or do the old problems quickly attach to the new term when renaming is the main action?

[marshwiggle]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/05/changing-conversation-about-"-risk"-students-california

Does changing the term fix the underlying problems?

Does changing the term ever fix problems? Or do the old problems quickly attach to the new term when renaming is the main action?

This is the equivalent of using a purple pen for grading rather than "triggering" red.

[downer]

It depends whether this is part of a larger change in approach.

The special-education movement has arguably been pretty successful at changing attitudes. Although my immediate reaction to such changes in uses is mostly "what a load of BS", I am struck that we are probably better off not using supposedly scientific terms like "moron."

So while I'm generally skeptical, I am open-minded about this change.

[Hibush]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/05/changing-conversation-about-"-risk"-students-california

Does changing the term fix the underlying problems?

Does changing the term ever fix problems? Or do the old problems quickly attach to the new term when renaming is the main action?

This is the equivalent of using a purple pen for grading rather than "triggering" red.

OTOH, it uses triggering non-grammatical construction for the term.

[marshwiggle]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/05/changing-conversation-about-"-risk"-students-california

Does changing the term fix the underlying problems?

Does changing the term ever fix problems? Or do the old problems quickly attach to the new term when renaming is the main action?

This is the equivalent of using a purple pen for grading rather than "triggering" red.

OTOH, it uses triggering non-grammatical construction for the term.

And "at-promise" threatens to heighten "addiction ambition" and the associated anxiety:

The Millennials is a generation who believes in frequent crisscrossing of globe to taste and live in diverse kinds of environment. Truly multitasker and stressed, this generation is cognitively overloaded with information and is suffering from what is called as ambition addiction and choice-overload.