education
I've always been curious about "online degrees" from a university. How does the teacher know if you've not Googled all the answers for your test, or looked it all up in the trusty encyclopedia? The online degree concept is beyond me. Call me a dinosaur.....Laura - Is there a reason the students aren't even prepared for the old standards? Inadequate teachers? Curriculum? I have been told that TCAP and other such testing is what the entire school curriculums are geared toward, and less of the useful type education we got, decades ago. They teach what they need to, for good test scores. Period.
Not having enough textbooks is ludicrous, but it happened here in Nashville last year (or the year before). A group of parents finally filed a lawsuit against Metro, when their kids still had no textbooks after a month or two of school. Yet the population voted to build and financially support-via taxes- the Titans football stadium. Shows where the priorities are with citizens. Football rules and schools can just go without books.
posted by Doris W. in TN @ 8:26 PM
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Our problem with textbooks is, hopefully, just for this year. The requirements that all students take Algebra II went into effect this year, but we don't have enough textbooks. We are due to buy texts this year, assuming that the money comes through from the state for that.
My position is that kids are not prepared for upper level mathematics because they are allowed/encouraged to use calculators too early and too often. We also, due to the federal emphasis on keeping kids in school, are attempting to educate kids that would have dropped out and gone to work as factory workers, farm workers, or other skilled labor 25 years ago. Now they have to stay in school, even though they find no relevance and no interest in it. We have a good vocational program, but the state keeps adding more and more academic requirements to the program, to the point that some of us are concerned that the vocational courses will have to be cut back, not for lack of interest, but for lack of time to take the courses.
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