A national disgrace and the fault of the Left and the public employee unions, specifically the NEA and AFT. Disgusting.
Does the “education elites” understand the concept of an inverse correlation? The more money that’s spent per student, the lower the test scores.
Get rid of common core. It defies logic.
From the movie Idiocracy:
“If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?”
Odd that Kate Zernike of the New York Times doesn’t do the usual racial breakdown... Always done when it assist their pet victim groups.
I wonder why not this time? Is the Times is pushing another liberal delusion? You betcha...
This year has been a disaster on the academic front. I warn parents with middle schoolers, do not buy into the latest scheme known as "blended learning". Only a select few have the motivation and discipline to thrive in such an independent environment.
He's done well in other pursuits, such as making first chair trumpet in Honor Winds, but even that's been a struggle. My wife doesn't seem to understand that he's displaying the stubborn streak that comes from her side of the family. My mom and stepdad weren't helicopter parents, and left me alone as long as my grades were ok.
Sorry for the rant, but last night was a bad scene with son and mom. I back my wife, of course, but she is never content to make her points and move on. She's done it with me, driving a point over and over again, never content to end without several belittling comments that she thinks proves her point.
I'll have a(nother) conversation with him after school today. Something's going to have to give, and it won't be academics or band. Athletics or scouts, one or both, are candidates for the chopping block. I need to make it that it's inevitably his choice not mine.
As a college chemistry instructor I find myself spending at least 10 minutes each lecture teaching students basic algebra needed for Intro Chemistry. Math deficiency is probably the number one reason students drop my course.
I bet this reflects a decline in the number of while males in high school (as a percentage of total population).
Well, as long as the little darling’s self esteem is intact....
Perhaps the scores are low if the algebra teacher uses class time to inform 9th graders about her bisexual love life instead of teaching the material. Then the responsible students have to scour the internet each night to learn what they need to know to complete the assignments, and the rest of the students ......
With all those private schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Montessori schools, etc., how the Hell is education becoming so poor??
Because, like, whose ever going use math in the real world, ok? like, this is totally lame and a waste of time. Did you see the new pix of Kim Kardashians a$$, OMG !!! hawt!
I’m a math guy...I use it every day at work.
But I can’t help my kids with their math homework. Its gibberish to me...an entire new language of math has been developed, with terms I’ve never heard of.
Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race white and not Hispanic.
The population younger than age 5 was 49.7 percent minority in 2011, up from 49.0 percent in 2010. A population greater than 50 percent minority is considered “majority-minority.”
These are the first set of population estimates by race, Hispanic origin, age and sex since the 2010 Census. They examine population change for these groups nationally, as well as within all states and counties, between Census Day (April 1, 2010) and July 1, 2011. Also released were population estimates for Puerto Rico and its municipios by age and sex.
There were 114 million minorities in 2011, or 36.6 percent of the U.S. population. In 2010, it stood at 36.1 percent.
There were five majority-minority states or equivalents in 2011: Hawaii (77.1 percent minority), the District of Columbia (64.7 percent), California (60.3 percent), New Mexico (59.8 percent) and Texas (55.2 percent). No other state had a minority population greater than 46.4 percent of the total.
More than 11 percent (348) of the nation's 3,143 counties were majority-minority as of July 1, 2011, with nine of these counties achieving this status since April 1, 2010. Maverick, Texas, had the largest share (96.8 percent) of its population in minority groups, followed by Webb, Texas (96.4 percent) and Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska (96.2 percent).
Wow! That's almost double! ;-)
I suggest abandoning the weasel-words "college ready", and replacing them with "college able".
The fraction of the college able is probably around 10% of white 18-year olds, when more than this go to college, the whole system deteriorates (as it is doing before our eyes).
Check the demographics. There’s your answer.