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To: kabar

About ten years ago my school system purchased a reading and math system based on the fact that it was produced by Johns Hopkins. The elementary teachers use it with glee because everything is scripted. Every Monday the students do the same thing, every Tuesday the students do the same thing, etc. There is even a scripted list of how to complement the students when they do well. The teachers have to do very little. Unfortunately I have classrooms full of functional illiterates and the math department can’t even get students to do simple math without calculators. This is all thanks to the Johns Hopkins program that we accepted on faith of the creator. Of course we will not get rid of the program because it’s not the program’s fault doncha know.


12 posted on 01/11/2012 4:19:27 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

Johns Hopkins and Johns Hopkins Medical are very different.

The medical school is considered very good. They also consider themselves very good. LOL


33 posted on 01/11/2012 7:10:41 PM PST by ladyjane
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