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Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
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| 3/26/06
| SAM DILLON
Posted on 03/25/2006 7:50:14 PM PST by mathprof
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I basically don't support the NCLB act.
However, it its unintended consequence is that schools focus more on the 3 R's, then that's great.
My kids waste far too much of their class time on PC indoctrination.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:50:17 PM PST
by
mathprof
To: mathprof
"Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math"
They make that sound like a bad thing...
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:51:46 PM PST
by
gondramB
(Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
To: mathprof
Local districts in CA are in the process of setting up broadband networks for math and science courses to be taught remotely from India starting next year.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:52:25 PM PST
by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: mathprof
Very sad. How will kids ever learn to put a condom on a banana?
Who will teach them that global warming is caused by Republican robber barons?
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:53:27 PM PST
by
Mr. Brightside
(Watcher of the Skies)
To: Euro-American Scum
I like to hear more about this. Are we in the process of sending teaching jobs overseas? I am surprise that the NEA and teachers union isn't going ballistic.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:54:45 PM PST
by
Fee
(`+Great powers never let minor allies dictate who, where and when they must fight.)
To: mathprof
You just watch how this is managed though. What will be cut are geography, world history and other important topics. What won't be cut are sex education, alternative lifestyles indoctrination and the Koran as an alternative holy book.
I gotta tell ya, when it comes to our public school upper level management and school boards, the Stalin model isn't quite as objectionable as it used to be as far as I am concerned.
Some of these folks should be in a dark prison hole never to be heard from again.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:54:51 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
To: mathprof
found that since the passage of the federal law, 71 percent of the nation's 15,000 school districts had reduced the hours of instructional time spent on history, music and other subjects not exactly a good thing
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:55:10 PM PST
by
digger48
To: mathprof
If you cannot do the basic three R's, offering science, social studies and other courses are not going to help you graduate or be a functional graduate in the world.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:56:10 PM PST
by
Fee
(`+Great powers never let minor allies dictate who, where and when they must fight.)
To: summer
Down your alley (( ping ))
To: digger48
"reduced the hours of instructional time spent on history, music and other subjects"
"not exactly a good thing"
No it's not a good thing. It's interesting that most of the comments on this have of the "sarcastic" kind.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:58:15 PM PST
by
swmobuffalo
(the only good terrorist is a dead one)
To: mathprof
What grades are they talking about? If first and second, nothing is more important than reading and some basic arithmetic. Once these are mastered, everything else is possible.
I am amazed that there are still places trying to teach reading by "whole language" rather than phonics. Places that have switched to phonics have seen great improvement in early reading achievement. Some theories (communism) die hard with some people.
To: mathprof
Concerning the advancement of learning, I do subscribe to the opinion
that, for grammar schools, there are already too many
the great number of schools which are in your Highnesss realm doth cause a want, and likewise an overthrow [surfeit] both of them inconvenient and one of them dangerous; for by means thereof they find want in the country and towns, both of servants for husbandry and of apprentices for trade; and on the other side there being more Scholars bred than the State can prefer and employ
it must needs fall out that many persons will be bred unfit for other vocations and unprofitable for that in which they were bred up, which will fill the realm full of indigent, idle and wanton people
Francis Bacon, 1611 letter to James I
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:58:46 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: DoughtyOne
Why would it be so hard to teach someone to read material that incorporates World History and Geography? This has stumped me for some time.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:59:13 PM PST
by
andie74
(I don't skinny dip; I chunky dunk!)
To: DoughtyOne
The priorities of Liberals are up-side-down. But at least now math and reading are automatic fixtures that can't be ignored by the nuts.
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posted on
03/25/2006 7:59:59 PM PST
by
Galveston Grl
(Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
To: digger48
History pretty much means PC indoctrination. That's the way it seems for my kids' public school education. Lots of time spent on how various groups were oppressed by the republican robber baron types.
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posted on
03/25/2006 8:00:56 PM PST
by
mathprof
To: digger48
There was a time I would agree with you. But with what passes for "history" in public schools today, I can't say that I do.
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posted on
03/25/2006 8:01:43 PM PST
by
Roccus
To: digger48
They can do history in the upper grades after they learn to read history books. We had a teacher of first graders who, before they could read or write, came up with a poetry project. The parents wrote the poems and worked with the kids to memorize them for the "reading." :)
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posted on
03/25/2006 8:02:26 PM PST
by
Galveston Grl
(Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
To: mathprof
You need to give students the core tools to succeed and learn things on their own. If Johnny can't read, he's not learning history either, and if Johnny can't add, science is worthless.
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posted on
03/25/2006 8:02:48 PM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: andie74
Within a few years it could. In year one and two there are a lot of phonics and other things that need to be taught. The larger more complex words associated with history and other topics could certainly be utilized in years three plus. I'd agree.
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posted on
03/25/2006 8:02:50 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
To: Mr. Brightside
Well said. To learn to read is a gift that provides endless possibilities. Math and literacy cannot be separated.
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posted on
03/25/2006 8:03:09 PM PST
by
Fielding
(Sans Dieu Rien)
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