Posted on 04/27/2016 6:10:02 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The average performance of the nation’s high school seniors dropped in math from 2013 to 2015, but held steady in reading, according to results of a biennial test released Wednesday.
The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also showed a drop in the percentage of students in private and public schools who are considered prepared for college-level work in reading and math. In 2013, the last time the test was given, 39 percent of students were estimated to be ready in math and 38 percent in reading; in 2015, 37 percent were judged prepared in each subject.
In a survey attached to the test, 42 percent of students said they had been accepted to a four-year college, suggesting that the need for remedial courses in college will remain stubborn.
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May I ask for a description of blended learning? I’ve never heard of it, and how it negatively affects students. I ask with respect and out of curiosity!
When I homeschooling my son in middle school, I used Saxon math. No calculators ever! And I instructed him to do as many of the problems in his head as he could. We are teaching our kids to always rely on paper, calculators, etc. I wanted him to use his noggin first.
In high school I worked at an ice cream shop. My boss would not let us use the register to determine change. It was the best thing that miserable jerk taught us.
She’s done it with me, driving a point over and over again, never content to end without several belittling comments that she thinks proves her point
Like some FReepers ;)/s
I love to confuse them by adding some extra change to get back a quarter or dime instead of pennies. They have trouble figuring out why I did that.
First off, I loved physics as a high school senior, and at the time had no idea that physics, was math. Math was my worst subject, so college was interesting until I figured out I better be looking at subjects with basic math, not algebra or above.
I’m beginning to think that math deficiency is the fault of the K-12 education and not anything else. If we truly had rigor (a common core value) we would NOT have math deficiency at the college level or the need for remedial math courses.
Perhaps the scores are low if the algebra teacher uses class time to inform 9th graders about her bisexual love life instead of teaching the material. Then the responsible students have to scour the internet each night to learn what they need to know to complete the assignments, and the rest of the students ......
Does the “education elites” understand the concept of an inverse correlation? The more money that’s spent per student, the lower the test scores.
The director of Idiocracy was recently quoted as saying “I had no idea that I was making a documentary”.
The "element of student control" is the flaw in the system, IMO. Teachers no longer teach, they're facilitators. Students are now "learners". The vast majority of 13-14 YOs do not have the maturity to stay focused. They need leadership and guidance, that's where teachers come in.
All students at the school have been issued tablets, and I laugh when I get an email that my son was caught playing a game. What in tarnation did they expect?
I just got an idea for creating a year long curriculum based on the game "Civilization", a game I've played for 20 years. Thanks to a strong modding community, there's a bevy of historical figures that I had never heard of, such as John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough. As I read about his successful campaign known as the Battle of Blenheim, I noticed one of his victories was in the German town of Trarbach.
I lived in Traben-Trarbach for four years during my tour in Germany, and I never saw any mention or recognition of that battle. BTW, he was an ancestor of Winston...
The class would be based on all aspects of the game, from technologies, forms of government, historical figures, etc. At first glance, I can see kids going "wow, this class will be a breeze!" LOLOLOL, when they find out MY teaching methods. For example, when they earn a "Great Person", they'll have to answer a variety of questions about who-why-where, etc.
Yeah, but she was only a lurker for FR, she didn’t want to waste her guidance on the general public...lolol.
I’m so tired even the 2 gallon bucket would be too much for me.
Thanks for your service, from an old “cherry jumper”.
With all those private schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Montessori schools, etc., how the Hell is education becoming so poor??
I blame the iphone and Steve Jobs. :)
Because, like, whose ever going use math in the real world, ok? like, this is totally lame and a waste of time. Did you see the new pix of Kim Kardashians a$$, OMG !!! hawt!
I’m a math guy...I use it every day at work.
But I can’t help my kids with their math homework. Its gibberish to me...an entire new language of math has been developed, with terms I’ve never heard of.
You want to blow a cashier’s mind? Pay with pennies to get silver change back (i.e. if it rings up $1.78, pay $2.03).
They’ll have no idea why you did it, and when the magic box rings up a quarter in change...well, they are just blown away.
To finish my degree I had to take Math and boy the whole way they do it today is stupid and no wonder most kids don’t get it.
I had to show all my work to the professor. I had to show how I carried over numbers etc when it was so easy to do in my head.
I got some right, but because I had not put down every little way I got the answer the professor marked it wrong.
Oh sorry they don’t say wrong anymore in schools, it is missed it.
I kid you not. They never say they got two problems wrong, but now say they missed two.
At first I was thinking how could you miss the problem wen it was multiple choice. Only two weeks later a kid told me that is what they say now as it is not nice to say they got it wrong.
Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race white and not Hispanic.
The population younger than age 5 was 49.7 percent minority in 2011, up from 49.0 percent in 2010. A population greater than 50 percent minority is considered “majority-minority.”
These are the first set of population estimates by race, Hispanic origin, age and sex since the 2010 Census. They examine population change for these groups nationally, as well as within all states and counties, between Census Day (April 1, 2010) and July 1, 2011. Also released were population estimates for Puerto Rico and its municipios by age and sex.
There were 114 million minorities in 2011, or 36.6 percent of the U.S. population. In 2010, it stood at 36.1 percent.
There were five majority-minority states or equivalents in 2011: Hawaii (77.1 percent minority), the District of Columbia (64.7 percent), California (60.3 percent), New Mexico (59.8 percent) and Texas (55.2 percent). No other state had a minority population greater than 46.4 percent of the total.
More than 11 percent (348) of the nation's 3,143 counties were majority-minority as of July 1, 2011, with nine of these counties achieving this status since April 1, 2010. Maverick, Texas, had the largest share (96.8 percent) of its population in minority groups, followed by Webb, Texas (96.4 percent) and Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska (96.2 percent).
Wow! That's almost double! ;-)
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