[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 86, Issue 11

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/19/10 13:31, Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> The quality of government education in this country has been in decline for
> more than a generation. Topics that are "AP" or Advanced Placement were
> general curriculum in years' past. My wife saw it in the dozen years she was
> a techer in her own school - standards being relaxed to get more passing
> students, so that more gov't $$ could keep flowing.

Yup.  Overly simplistic and narrowly-focused notions of "performance",
tied to funding, have resulted in a race to the bottom.  And that NEVER
ends well, for anyone.


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