OUR OPINION: Let Massachusetts be model for N.D. school reforms
December 29, 2012 at 6:05 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The Bay State dominates national assessments of student performance. N.D. should set its eyes on that goal. Continue Reading
OUR OPINION: Let Massachusetts be model for N.D. school reforms
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Did the federal government force the same population of ESL students on Massachusetts as they did to ND?
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I saw a television commercial tonight that claimed that the USA is in 25th place among developed nations in terms of academic achievement.
I wonder if the 24 nations ahead of us insist that mental defectives be included in the classrooms to drag down the achievement of the rest of the class.
Bruce Van Sickle made an enormous mistake. “Special” students should be in a “special” setting–not in regular classrooms.
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I believe the ad you’re referring to is about math results; there is also one about science. These are consequences of the major changes in the US over the decades whereby learning had to be fun. The first victim of this, the central process of math and science, was rote learning. How many kids today can make simple arithmetic calculations in their head, as we were trained to do 50+ years ago? In Asia, kids go to school 6 days a week, and bring home 4 hours of homework. I don’t believe homework exists here until high school. By then it’s too late. Schools have become a social institution: clubs, dances, sports. Kids learn to put material in short term memory for the tests, then forget it. Thus the need for remediation at the university level. The good students will succeed. The mediocre and the poor ones remain ignorant.
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