Posted on 03/07/2010 10:21:23 AM PST by LS
Why not start American History in 1900 not 1873? That will give the students less stuff to have to memorize.
Texas Freedom (and I use the term loosely) Network shenanigans?
Yeah, just got this information from some Texas people. Thanks.
Yessir.
I don’t know about Texas, but the NC move to make high school history begin with 1877 has apparently been killed.
It was national FOX. The local FOX station is marginal at best so never listen to it.
Guess some of us who are more mature in years have a little problem with what constitutes history. I started living it in 1942 so what we studied in school was a relatively short period of time compared with what kids need to study now. Another reason for grandparents to spend time talking with the grandkids about the “olden days”.
Grams
thanks
and you are certain they said the state of Texas was trying to do this versus the state of North Carolin?
NC has been in the news for considering this but I have not heard one word about Texas considering this.
If you google it there are articles mentioning North Carolina but none mentioning Texas
Could you have misheard it? Which Fox program was on when you heard it?
This is pretty important and should be verified
Was early this morning and the female reporter indicated that the Texas Department of Education would be addressing the issue this week - I believe beginning Wednesday. They spoke about the impact that Texas’ educational decisions have on the rest of the nation because of the large number of students we have. It was on the FOX national news channel, not our local FOX. Before 9 a.m. central time. Remember thinking at the time that I needed to check FR to see if anyone else picked up on it and to alert my neighbors who have kids going to the public school. Sorry I can’t be more specific but that’s all I remember.
One other thing - they did talk about replacing Christmas with some other holiday - one I didn’t recognize - and one of the male reporters also questioned this.
Ping
Meteorologists ROCK!
She is so right. I saw the same thing when I went back to college and that was well before she did.
Look what they’re erasing from U.S. history!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449156/posts
“She is so right. I saw the same thing when I went back to college and that was well before she did.”
What’s so powerful about her is that she says it with a smile and stays right on message - meaning that EVERYTHING she says about the books are from the books. I can’t do that...I’ll launch into the motives of the people shoving this stuff into our schools. She just tells people what it is and lets them make their own judgments.
I know some people in public schools and have seen the *Everyday Math* curriculum and it is all as bad as she says.
It’s a terrible curriculum, very confusing to get around. The teacher’s manual, which is what I looked at, is even worse.
It’s no wonder the kids aren’t learning anything, because if the teachers use that as a guide to teach, they couldn’t do it coherently in the first place.
I was hoping that that nice meteorologist lady would recommend Saxon Math for remedial math for kids. We used it for homeschooling and it’s so well laid out and the explanations are so concise and easy to understand, that you can teach the subject even if you don’t have mastery of math yourself. What happens is that you learn as you go, as I did.
All that math that I was supposed to have learned in public school myself in the late 60’s and early 70’s that I didn’t get then, FINALLY made sense after going through Saxon Math (three times each up through Algebra II).
I did manage to pass calc in college myself with the help of a wonderful math prof who worked very diligently with me, but it would have been a lot easier if I understood math BEFORE going into calc, instead of after.....
Post 3 of that thread is the worst indictment of our current diseducation system that I have ever seen. Thanks for posting this reference.
LS,
Go here and/or google Jonathan Saenz, Liberty INstitute, lot of insight on Texas textbook controversies:
http://texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com/
http://texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/watch-our-fox-news-interview/
Also, Bill Ames had a great writeup in Texas Insider on the social studies TEKS controversy:
http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=18289
Morning bump...F&F just ran a ‘promo’ for the spot.
I’m of the view that textbooks are like toupees. Some are better than others, but all of them are fake. I wouldn’t be surprised if a recent college graduate were to join FR under the name Tired of Textbooks.
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