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Learning Foreign Languages

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 168, Clicks: 9)  
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Speech is the way you interact with the world. It is not just travel that requires knowing foreign languages. It is something that, scared as some people are, is essential for navigating even the United States. Not just Spanish, but Chinese and other Asian languages can be useful for local navigation. And the world gets more interesting when you can understand what it is saying...

0 comments | Tags: studying foreign language opinion | Topic: Blogs BAD >_<

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Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Skinner sumitted ago via http://truthout.org (Views: 124, Clicks: 4)  
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A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind.

1 comments | Tags: opinion anti-intellectualism | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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The Value of an Educated Mind in a High-Tech World

Sculb sumitted ago via http://truthout.org (Views: 165, Clicks: 6)  
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Will information technology end up reducing, not increasing, the demand for highly educated workers, because a lot of what highly educated workers do can actually be replaced by sophisticated information processing? In America are we overselling higher education?

1 comments | Tags: krugman opinion education economics | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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Getting schooled, not educated

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 243, Clicks: 3)  
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We teach high school students to focus on graduation, instead of education. The entire educational establishment teaches students to focus on grades (which are often arbitrary measures of a student’s work ethic) instead of on learning and displaying subject competence, creativity, original thinking or intellectual growth. Colleges in this regard are no different...

2 comments | Tags: standardized tests opinion learning culture | Topic: Blogs BAD >_<

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Public Education: Testing 1-2-3...

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 169, Clicks: 3)  
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Memorizing a set of facts so that one will "know" them on a particular day may result in a passing score, but ultimately nothing will actually be learned. Requiring everyday work with respect to a literary text, studying literature as it is meant to be studied (read -> think -> write -> discuss -> repeat), that produces actual literacy.

0 comments | Tags: standardized tests opinion reading | Topic: Blogs BAD >_<

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What You Can't Measure With a Test

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 128, Clicks: 2)  
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I see evidence of student learning in my literature classroom every day. Some of it can be measured and compiled and recorded. Some of it cannot. But it's happening. I know it is because I'm a teacher, and my students are not vessels overflowing with gallons of facts. They are amazing, thinking, feeling humans who daily ask questions about literature -- which translate into questions about life -- that I can't, or won't, give answers to, factual or otherwise.

0 comments | Tags: standardized tests opinion dena minato | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Our Market Regime and Public Education

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 140, Clicks: 2)  
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Private enterprise already controls the technology and may hold on to a privatized education when it gets it - if the profits prove large enough. The future of education then would be a competition between profit and greater profit, the free and public brand of education "creatively destroyed."

1 comments | Tags: opinion privatized education usa | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Doubling Down on Crazy: Texas State Board of Education

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.dailykos.com (Views: 196, Clicks: 4)  
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The Permanent School Fund was set up by the founders of Texas, written into the Constitution to ensure that all children in the state of Texas could receive a quality public education. Unfortunately, members of the board apparently do not believe in public education as Sam Houston and the founders envisioned it. Last week the SBOE members decided to take funds set aside for our children’s education to buy real estate to rent to charter schools at a subsidized rate.

1 comments | Tags: texas board of education charter schools opinion blog texas | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Anti-intellectualism in American Higher Ed

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 139, Clicks: 4)  
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Higher education has a responsibility not only to search for the truth regardless of where it may lead, but also to educate students to make authority and power politically and morally accountable. What needs to be understood is that higher education may be one of the few institutions we have left in the United States where knowledge, values and learning offer a glimpse of the promise of education for nurturing public values, critical hope and a sense of civic responsibility.

0 comments | Tags: opinion anti-intellectualism | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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Professor worries TAKS test breeds ignorant voters

Sculb sumitted ago via http://texasedequity.blogspot.com (Views: 325, Clicks: 1)  
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So not only does the constant drilling on facts for the TAKS test limit the time students can spend learning higher thinking skills and the ability to write, but the test may not even be measuring knowledge so much as an ability to glean clues from questions to get the right answers.

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Education Week: Are Advanced Placement Courses Diminishing Liberal Arts Education?

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 152, Clicks: 3)  
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Yet, my 40 years of undergraduate teaching in the humanities and social sciences, currently at the University of California, Los Angeles, persuade me that Advanced Placement preparation is overrated and may, ironically, diminish rather than advance the deeper objectives of a liberal arts education.

1 comments | Tags: higher education advanced placement liberal arts opinion | Topic: Gifted Programs BAD >_<

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Special-ed reporting chose fear over facts

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.cmonitor.com (Views: 136, Clicks: 0)  
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We are no longer living in the 1960s, when it was presumed that autism was the result of cold or indifferent mothers. I'm sure parents of a child with Down syndrome would like their child's disability to be the fault of their socioeconomic standing, in which case their child's disability could be "cured" by a higher-paying job. Did reporter Melanie Asmar not hear about recent research that found children with ADHD suffer primarily from an actual delay in brain development?

0 comments | Tags: opinion education spending | Topic: Special Education BAD >_<

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