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Chargement... If It's Broken Don't Fix It: An Inside Look At Education & The Common Corepar Mr. Noriega
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Our current education system is our nation s greatest tragedy. One that if not quickly remedied will have the longest lasting ill effects in these years to come. Over the past few decades, we have seen a rapid decline in our education. The Department of Education spends tens of millions of dollars towards improvements, yet test averages continue to decline at an alarming rate. The question they will not answer is: Why our students are still failing despite all the efforts? From inside a women s correctional facility to a small town junior high, a teacher on the inside takes you on a tour of our public education system, and exposes the hypocrisy of the philosophy: they preach, what they don t want you to teach. Learn the incredible secrets they don t want you to know.Learn why NCLB failed almost overnight, without major coverage by the media. Learn how the government took over the constitutional states' rights on education without congressional approval in a federal power-grab known as the Common Core. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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From inside a women's correctional facility, to the small town public junior high school, a teacher on the "inside" takes you on a tour of our public education system and exposes the hypocrisy of the philosophy: "they preach what they don't want you to teach."
I have to say, that as I read this book, there seemed to me to be more news coverage of the American education system than there ever was before. Perhaps that was the way it has always been; but I was just more attuned to the news coverage, because I was reading this book. Anyway, I knew that the American education system was in dire straits; I just never realized that education standards had slipped as low as they have so quickly. It's frightening to witness!
I have a question: How is it possible that debate over children's health and weight can be so rampant - which certainly is a worthy debate, don't get me wrong - but how then can schools remove recess or physical education classes from their schedule, and still complain that children are no longer as fit as they should be? If you remove cursive writing from a school's curriculum, I believe that schools should subsequently be denied the ability to complain about their students' handwriting skills.
How can teachers allow students to continue to believe 3 times 4 equals 11; just as long as they can show their work sufficiently? My father was a former math teacher, and usually - if I used a particularly difficult mathematical concept correctly, but still got the wrong answer - I was certainly praised for figuring out the tough mathematical formula; but I was also told that my answer was wrong, or that I was using a particular mathematical formula in the wrong context. Then my dad taught me how to do the math correctly.
I give this book an A+! and am eagerly looking forward to reading Sinhue Noriega's novel, Prisoner of Paradise sometime in the future. ( )