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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Elroy who wrote (154773)1/22/2011 7:57:45 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 543167
 
>>A school which claims to deliver a graduating class of students who value being a human being, appreciate diversity, and are able to express themselves (presumably verbally), yet unable to do math well or write English properly, hasn't done a very good job.<<

I don't disagree. Kids really do have to learn the basics. Yet test scores alone can't be the only metric for success. Maybe one metric, but not the only one.

I think our failure to teach our children how to think is a major impediment to the effective functioning of our Democratic Republic. But teaching reading and math, and teaching thinking, go very, very well together. In the few cases during my school career that I was fortunate enough to encounter teachers who could cover the subject matter while also requiring their students to think critically did better at both.
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