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kylie5432

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6. Maybe if we stopped "fads" we could educate kids

Reply to Ezlivin (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 02:36 PM

Dec 2013

The bottom line is we educate via political fads not for the jobs that are needed. We don't need every student to go to a four year college and take test prep classes. We need to be reading whole text in middle school and beginning training programs freshman year in high school for such fields as respiratory therapy, aerospace fasteners, airplane mechanics and more. We have no vision and we just want to blame teachers -that's why we're not educating our children.

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Tests Show U.S. Teens Trail Many Countries In Academic Performance [View all] Purveyor Dec 2013 OP

Clearly, what we need is more testing. (nt) jeff47 Dec 2013 #1

We spend more than leftynyc Dec 2013 #2

When corrected for poverty, our scores are near the top kylie5432 Dec 2013 #3

No, that's wrong - US is average for OECD for disadvantaged students muriel_volestrangler Dec 2013 #11

40 years ago we were bombing the hell out of Vietnam Ezlivin Dec 2013 #4

Maybe if we stopped "fads" we could educate kids kylie5432 Dec 2013 #6

If it's all about higher scores, let's just follow the lead of our Wall Street betters... Jerry442 Dec 2013 #5

I like that: "...and cook them." FiveGoodMen Dec 2013 #9

Home "skooling" and FuksFakeNews got anything to do with it? SoapBox Dec 2013 #7

Not a bit. Igel Dec 2013 #15

this is creating huge pressures in higher education.... mike_c Dec 2013 #8

Yup. Igel Dec 2013 #16

Academics dont exist in a buble. Bradical79 Dec 2013 #10

We have no vision of what an educated person is BrotherIvan Dec 2013 #12

Obviously what we need is moar corporate education reform since that's worked so great Starry Messenger Dec 2013 #13

Average scores from Massachusetts rose above the international average in all three subject areas. One_Life_To_Give Dec 2013 #14