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Lake Wobegon Revisited: On Diversity and Education
Educational Researcher, 1993I present the theses that current educational practices underestimate the magnitude of diversity in educational achievement and that disregarding diversity has the effect of widening the range of differences. I suggest that diversity in the rate of growth of capacity to process increasingly complex tasks partly underlies achievement differences.
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Lake Wobegon Upside Down: The Paradox of Status-Devaluation
Social Forces, 2006This paper examines a cognitive bias whereby respondents in postcommunist Bulgaria systematically decrease their self estimates on material welfare in contrast to the well-established status-enhancement bias. The analysis shows that the main reason for the occurrence of status-devaluation is the experience of relative deprivation in postcommunism ...
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Wobegonian Modesty and Garrison Keilor’s Lake Wobegon Days
2017The humble Midwestern town also survives on modesty and a range of satellite sentiments and postures, depending very much on them in Garrison Keillor’s 1985 book Lake Wobegon Days. It is, firmly, a work of pastoral—a literary representation of social, emotional, and aesthetic dualities and tensions in the frame, or in mind, of rural or regional place ...
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The Lake Wobegone Recount: Minnesota's Disputed 2008 U.S. Senate Election
Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 2011Abstract One of the most daunting circumstances that confronts a robust democracy is a major election where the initial returns show an extraordinarily narrow margin of victory. The intensely competitive political forces that produce the proverbially “razor-thin” result inevitably carry over into the canvassing and recounting of votes. The existence of
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