Posted on 07/11/2011 3:25:12 PM PDT by John Semmens
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan advised against drawing the wrong conclusion from recent academic test results in California. From 2008 to 2010, California students’ math proficiency rose from 57% to 62%, while reading proficiency rose from 53% to 59%. At the same time, school funding declined by 6%.
“A lot of people are going to look at these figures and think we can get by with spending less,” Duncan observed. “This would be the wrong conclusion. Improving test scores isn’t the only or even the most important measure of school success.”
As Duncan sees it, “building self esteem is the number one goal of the public school system. The effort to fill a child’s head with knowledge or teach him how to solve problems shouldn’t be allowed to divert us from this higher purpose. In our modern world we have computers that can do the math. Visual and oral modes of communication have largely replaced the written word. But there is no substitute for a good self image.”
In related news, the teachers’ union—the National Education Association—endorsed the reelection of President Obama. “The president shares our vision for a re-educated America,” said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. “We are confident that he will ensure that we are given the resources to implement this vision.”
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too realistic to be satire.
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“building self esteem is the number one goal of the public school system. The effort to fill a child’s head with knowledge or teach him how to solve problems shouldn’t be allowed to divert us from this higher purpose. In our modern world we have computers that can do the math. Visual and oral modes of communication have largely replaced the written word. But there is no substitute for a good self image.”
That was satire, right????
Yes, Martha.
Educators really ARE that stupid.
Education “degree”.
Duh.
I thought you were going to reference the Atlanta cheating scandal, and have him say that, since everyone knows the scores would have fallen without the teachers’ rewriting the answer sheets, it proves lower funding causes worse results.
I was all set to post a comment suggesting that California teachers have been using Atlanta teacher’s testing methods but I noticed, just in time, that this is another one of your so-close-to-the-truth-it’s-scary satires.
Good one!!
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