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November 24, 2006, 7:32 am PST
Nutty education
Quote From: purplepenny"Next, there are boudaries set by the district on w hat they can teach
your child that do not exist in private school. In private school (I
found this out after we checked out private schools and from a teacher)
they can teach whatever they see fit." That is an excellent point. Private schools that get no public funding can teach whatever nutty thing they want and that worries me greatly. Unfortunately, Public schools get public funding, and can also teach whatever nutty thing they want. Most states model their math program after NCTM standards, which are consistently criticized by mathematicians as unsound and virtually guaranteed to lead to poor performance. These standard are part of why the US performs so poorly on the TIMMS test, while Singapore does the best.
This is also why students are not taught grammar in high school.
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