Really? What fresh hell is this?? I am so glad my kids are out of school. I worry for grandkids however. I really do...
I agree with you. That would piss me off too.
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Really? What fresh hell is this?? I am so glad my kids are out of school. I worry for grandkids however. I really do...
Really? What fresh hell is this?? I am so glad my kids are out of school. I worry for grandkids however. I really do...
American literature classics are to be replaced by insulation manuals and plant inventories in US classrooms by 2014.
A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace.
Books such as JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by "informational texts" approved by the Common Core State Standards.
Suggested non-fiction texts include Recommended Levels of Insulation by the the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Invasive Plant Inventory, by California's Invasive Plant Council.
<Sigh> Full article here.
I teach middle school and while I understand the theory behind the common core standards (which are leading us to informational text over literature), there are many problems with the educational system that are being pushed aside for the new "easy" push toward science, technology, engineering, and math. I worry that we are looking at surface fixes that don't address underlying problems. I literally and truly have students in my 7th grade class who are on a 2nd grade reading and comprehension level who will be continually passed on through school. And no push toward STEM classes or reading informational text will make those students any more prepared for the work force in their next 6 years of schooling.
It's things like this that make me understand the impulse toward something like No Child, even though that winds up being half the problem. Just throwing more standardized garbage at everyone doesn't raise the standard.
Of course if you actually gave someone Walden or Silent Spring or any of the myriad science related non fic benchmarks, someone's going to complain about evolution or reality. Shit the rest of the world can hardly believe we're allowing onto the table.
WTF?
A blue whale-sized asteroid (~65 feet/20 m.) passes within 32,000 miles (51,500 km.) of earth - that's approximately one-quarter the distance between earth and moon! - and it doesn't make front pages, lead story (or at least featured story) on the nightly news?
A smaller (15 ft/4.5 m.) asteroid passes within 8,950 miles (14,400 km.) of earth, closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites, and IT doesn't make front pages, lead story (or at least featured story) on the nightly news?
Come on, folks! If we're going to have an apocalypse, at least let us know an hour or two in advance! K?Thx!Bye!
Click the "WTF?" at the top for the Wired article.
I can't seem to shake this depression funk I've been in lately.
I can't seem to shake this depression funk I've been in lately.
Maybe you need to get a dog.
Stupid people who are pretenders who get upset when you try to have a genuine conversation with them and they act like you are being bitchy because they have no idea what they are talking about.
There's always a reason. Either you just don't know what the reason was, or your ISP isn't telling you because they think you're like most of their customers and aren't smart enough to need to know why. But there's always a reason, for everything... well, except for certain bits of human behavior.The internet went down for no reason.
Google skillz: fail.
Also, no one wants to have mulled wine with me.
I would.