Learning, Education, & Training – Page 14

Your Child Left Behind – The Atlantic

For years, poor performance by students in America relative to those in other countries has been explained away as a consequence of our nationwide diversity. But what if you looked more closely, breaking down our results by state and searching not for an average, but for excellence?

Source: Your Child Left Behind – The Atlantic

Perhaps this is why we have 9.8% unemployment and 1.28 million discouraged unemployed? Do we have minimum wages that are higher than what these people can produce?

Also, even if the USA sucks at math, how does it compare in say art or music? Do we have better singers, more talented fashionistas, or more original artists?

Confronting a third crisis in U.S. science education – Science News

the issues around science, technology, engineering and mathematics are not tied to just those fields — that in fact this is the basis for our wealth formation

Source: Confronting a third crisis in U.S. science education – Science News

Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers

While these horror stories are sensational, what’s also disturbing is the immunity enjoyed by the thousands of teachers who let down their students in more ordinary ways. Many more teachers are overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. Maybe they’d get more respect if the truly bad teachers were let go.

Source: Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: How Good Are UW Students in Math?

If many of our state’s best students are mathematically illiterate, as shown by this exam, can you imagine what is happening to the others–those going to community college or no college at all?

Source: Cliff Mass Weather Blog: How Good Are UW Students in Math?