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http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/about_us/as_seen_on/how-productive-is-your-child%27s-school%3F

My granddaughters school.


22 posted on 05/12/2011 7:32:45 PM PDT by Krodg
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"What the eighth graders are learning is crossing the boundaries of language arts, environmental science and deductive reasoning."

Oh good! A public school is catching up to the classical homeschoolers -- this sounds like the integration of subjects, which is proper for the dialectic stage! Kind of like ... medieval classical education! :-)

"Taken by and large, the great difference of emphasis between the two conceptions holds good: modern education concentrates on "teaching subjects," leaving the method of thinking, arguing, and expressing one's conclusions to be picked up by the scholar as he goes along. Medieval education concentrated on first forging and learning to handle the tools of learning, using whatever subject came handy as a piece of material on which to doodle until the use of the tool became second nature." ~ Dorothy Sayers

42 posted on 05/12/2011 8:58:51 PM PDT by agrarianlady
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