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re: 9 reasons why public educ fails
Posted on 4/13/14 at 1:37 pm to NC_Tigah
Posted on 4/13/14 at 1:37 pm to NC_Tigah
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One of these things is not like the other. Can you see that?
If you care more about your kid getting their politics form the 6th grade social studies teacher, then you are missing the point of whats really wrong with our schools. We are falling behind in Maths and Sciences.
also i don't get how there is an alternative method in social studies.
Posted on 4/13/14 at 2:11 pm to SammyTiger
quote:I care about results. PERIOD!
If you care more about your kid getting their politics form the 6th grade social studies teacher, then you are missing the point of whats really wrong with our schools.
I far less about method.
Common Core offers no particular advantages toward that end, at least as far as I can see. It requires a lot more work in preparation from a teaching end. CC standards do seem higher. The methods of attaining those results are as elusive as ever though.
There are far more productive alternatives.
Opening up access and choice via vouchers would be one.
Another is intellectually leveling classes. Grouping kids across the IQ spectrum into the same classroom under the same educational umbrella is extraordinarily inefficient. Less capable kids hold the most capable back. The more capable kids push classroom tasks up to a level impossible for the lower capacity kids to meet.
The result?
Mediocrity.
We pay more and get less for the dollar in our primary and secondary public education system than any other society in history.
We can do far better.
CC is shifting the chairs on a sinking shipdeck.
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