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...they made it so that Kansas schoolchildren would no longer have to display any knowledge of macroevolution, large-scale evolutionary change, on a state exam. Local school boards were left to decide how this aspect of evolution would be taught in their schools...
...well into adulthood, acting as if having to work hard for something detracts from getting it. He's fond of saying that if he doesn't win the presidency, so be it; he can always go fishing. He's not fond of books, and he told a group of schoolchildren that you can get a gentleman's C and end up successful. He insists he can hire foreign policy expertise, as if he doesn't need to acquire it painstakingly...
Math education reformers have a prescription for raising the mathematical knowledge of schoolchildren. Do not teach the standard algorithms of arithmetic, such as long addition and multiplication, they say; let the children find their own methods for adding and multiplying two-digit numbers, and for larger numbers, let them use calculators. One determined reformer puts it decisively: "It's time to acknowledge that continuing to teach these skills (i.e., pencil-and-paper computational algorithms) to our students is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive and downright dangerous...
...American schoolchildren rank near the bottom in international comparisons of mathematical knowledge. Our reformers see this as an argument for their ideas. But look at Singapore, the undisputed leader in these comparisons: their math textbooks try hard to engage the students and to stimulate their interest. In early grades, they present mathematical problems playfully, often in the guise of puzzles. Yet the textbooks are coherent, systematic, efficient, and cover all the basics--worlds apart from the reform curricula in this country. How I wish Singapore's approach were adopted in my daughter's school...
...symbolism Bush employs can be just as orchestrated. The Governor rarely turns up in front of a camera these days without surrounding himself with African-American schoolchildren, Hispanic social workers, Catholic clergymen--or, as was the case last Thursday in Austin, Texas, gay Republicans. So it was in keeping with the script earlier in the week that after dropping by an adult learning center in a gritty west Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood and testing out his fearless, if primitive Spanish, Bush went around the corner to the West Side Ecumenical Ministry to announce a plan to help the working poor...