Scores are down due to less teaching of basic skills! This youtube describes the deplorable condition of many math classes. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI&mode=related&search= Reading is no better. Where is the science?????
Extra money in my local school system goes toward hiring additional administrators or building a new school board building (beauracracy) - rather than directly benefiting the students or hiring additional/skilled teachers.
Educrats are the problem!
WOW....I watched about 3 minutes.....I always wondered what the grandkids were doing when they were multiplying with some weird process!!! This is WA State where I am.....
ping to WA STATE Freepers
Thanks for that Youtube link. What a horror. Did we learn nothing from the New Match debacle? Is there something wrong with teaching the simplest, most direct way of problem solving? Is that what PoMo math looks like? The incredible thing is that test scores haven't gone through the floor. At best, we're creating a generation of math-phobes.