Zeno Swijtink
01-02-2008, 11:39 AM
The discussion about wi-fi comes to mind ...
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The Irascible Professor
Irreverent Commentary on the State of Education in America Today
by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe."... ...Galileo Galilei.
Commentary of the Day - January 2, 2008: No Need for Math or Science, Think Again!
Recently, the Irascible Professor has been spending a little time chatting on Gerald Bracey's "Education Disinformation and Detection Reporting Agency" (eddra) Yahoo group (https://groups.yahoo.com/group/eddra/). For those of you who are not familiar with Bracey, he is an unabashed and often caustic supporter of American public education. Bracey's degrees are in psychology, but for the past decade and a half he has devoted much of his time to debunking test results and other reports that suggest that American public school students might not be learning as much or as well as some of their contemporaries in other countries. Many of the international comparisons of educational attainment are limited in the subject matter that they cover. However, achievement in mathematics and science seems to be a hallmark of most of the tests from which the international comparisons are derived.
Unfortunately, students from the United States, though by no means the worst in most of these international comparisons, frequently display mediocre levels of achievement. ...
See the rest of this article here:
https://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-01-02-08.htm
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The Irascible Professor
Irreverent Commentary on the State of Education in America Today
by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe."... ...Galileo Galilei.
Commentary of the Day - January 2, 2008: No Need for Math or Science, Think Again!
Recently, the Irascible Professor has been spending a little time chatting on Gerald Bracey's "Education Disinformation and Detection Reporting Agency" (eddra) Yahoo group (https://groups.yahoo.com/group/eddra/). For those of you who are not familiar with Bracey, he is an unabashed and often caustic supporter of American public education. Bracey's degrees are in psychology, but for the past decade and a half he has devoted much of his time to debunking test results and other reports that suggest that American public school students might not be learning as much or as well as some of their contemporaries in other countries. Many of the international comparisons of educational attainment are limited in the subject matter that they cover. However, achievement in mathematics and science seems to be a hallmark of most of the tests from which the international comparisons are derived.
Unfortunately, students from the United States, though by no means the worst in most of these international comparisons, frequently display mediocre levels of achievement. ...
See the rest of this article here:
https://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-01-02-08.htm