Dear Asia: Please Send More Young People
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 12:32
in Mathematics & Economics
Here's a good way to standardize education across the states without enraging powerful education unions and the US Department of Education: get rid of real standards.In a bit of pedagogical brilliance, California has decided to forgo algebra I, even for 8th graders, if they are not 'ready'. And it will work, because with President Obama's killing of No Child Left Behind, despite its proven benefits in minority education and bringing parity to female math students for the first time in history, test scores (which determine money) will be based on an 'alternative' test that doesn't use algebra. read more