Posted on 05/09/2020 3:23:18 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Eighth-graders’ scores on national U.S. history and geography tests have declined since 2014, while their performance in civics has held steady at the basic level, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress results released Thursday.
"Right now, the value of history, geography and civics is quite clear," Lesley Muldoon, executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets NAEP policy, said on a press call. "Everyone needs to understand the world around us and our role in it."
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What can one expect? They teach the kids nothing.
History and Geography can become very subjective...in the wrong direction.
Thank you public school teacher unions.
No worries: homeschooling for a couple of months will change the scores upward.
Doesn’t surprise me. I ended a 30-year career of teaching World History/Geography in a public HS 12 years ago. As I was briefing my replacement, he told me he was coming in with a mandate from the principal to teach the course w/o having the students learn maps.
Having my students memorize maps of the regions of the world was one of my trademarks as a teacher.
I picked my jaw up off the floor, then my belongings, and left.
History and geography were my absolute favorite subjects Mr. Kluger absolute best history teacher EVER!! Hated math though!!!
I taught jr high history for many years. As far as testing is concerned, math, reading and science are the only subjects considered worth testing.
About 10 years before I retired, I was told that my role as a history teacher was to devote myself to raising the math and reading scores. Helping the reading scores was easy, to be successful, the kids had to actually read the text. As for math, I’d throw in a question like, “the Wright Brothers first flew in 1903—how long ago was that?” “No, you can’t use a calculator”. Maybe 2/3rds of the 8th graders could do the subtraction.
How many can locate Wuhan, China on a map?
Common Core working as designed......
To busy being taught social issues.
Students are first taught to be good Democrats..
“History and Geography can become very subjective...in the wrong direction.”
Yeah, they lie about that too.
I ignored the order and fortunately the administrator in question soon left. But I wondered how you were supposed to follow that order in a math or science course.
unless you have permissive parents who couldn’t care less before all this started happening. My husband’s ex shrew for example.
Kids were always failing, truant, phony baloney IEPs, etc. She and her husband couldn’t care less.
Report shows the youngest hasn’t done any work since mommykins pulled him out of school DAYS before the lockdown so he can smoke blunts and play vid games 24/7. All emails have been ignored.
“Child” support goes to 21 here unfortunately. Fifteen years down, 3.5 more years to go. (2 older kids now emancipated.)
No, we can’t go for custody. The state gets fed kickbacks for highest “child” support collected and kid is ruined beyond belief as well as alienated from us for over a decade.
scores weren’t that great in 2014.
My 11 year old grandson said he felt sorry for his mother because she’s doing the teaching. The teachers drop a load of assignments each day and the kids are on their own.
Yeah, but they “know” America is a racist country founded on slavery and that sexual perversion is something to celebrate.
My 11 grade US history teachers passed away a couple of days ago. He was 90 years. A good two dozen of his former students, including me, emailed comments to the funeral home. He taught history for over 30 years; he retired in 1988. I took his course from 1965-1966.
How could the scores drop? They are not taught, nor are they expected to know, jack shit about these subjects.
As I understand it, most public schools start history at/after the War Between the States because they feel it’s too much information for the snowflakes to absorb.
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