Posted on 03/07/2013 3:11:25 PM PST by SMGFan
It’s an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.
The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
On the plus side, 20% can read.
My two daughters learned to read in 10 hours, at four years of age, using phonics. 15 minutes per day, for a month. They then began reading Dr. Suess on their own.
This is slightly below the average for homeschoolers.
The government schools can go to hell, from whence they came.
Read about it below for free.
http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
I am not suprised.
No Child Left Behind has led to massive cheating on the standardized tests, and poorer education.
The school administrators will tell teachers to do the tests for the kids. Or they will change the answers before turning them in.
My bride got pressured, once, to do so. She asked for it in writing, and said that she will turn it in to the paper. We aren’t from here, and don’t care if we have to move.
But the pension plans for all your followers are doing well, I understand.
Now you can go back to moveon.org and DU where others of your stripe appreciate you...we do not, you obnoxious, over the hill jackal who has stolen the future from so many children.
And I mean that in a good way. You can have the last word.
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Not *just possibly* and *helpful*, but *absolutely essential* and *critical*.
It known that parental involvement with their children at a young age, especially 18-26 months, is absolutely essential and critical to a child's mental development and will determine whether they succeed in becoming literate or not.
I'll guess you didn't talk baby talk to them either.
I wrote two books before I left my mother's womb.
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Phonics is the BEST way to learn to read.
If you’ve ever watched the National Spelling Bee, you’ll see the kids using phonics and the language of origin to try to determine how to spell a word.
If you simply do memorization, you are dependent on memorizing every single word you know and if you don’t, you don’t have a clue how to pronounce it. Nor can you sound it out to have any idea how to spell it correctly.
With phonics, you simply sound out the word, knowing what sound each letter makes. It can be learned in less than 2 years in a school setting, at the first and second grade level. I know because we used Ron & Staff Phonics for our kids when we homeschooled them and it as for first and second grade and they learned it all.
And all are excellent spellers.
I'd disagree with you. Used Saxon Math from my 4th grade year up until I went into calculus in college, loved it. No problem applying to real-world problems. Many many homeschoolers love Saxon for the mastery of basic concepts.
I am not Randi Weingarten. She's not too popular around here, having signed off on a horrid contract and a bunch of things deleterious to student learning.
We want to know how many hours you spent memorizing your tired, oh-so-tired rhetoric which originated in the minds of others, but which you parrot. That's all you are obviously capable of, not an original thought in what passes for a mind under your pathetic pate.
I am, BTW, a conservative teacher who holds out for high standards, both academic and moral, in the classroom. Unlike you, I write my own lines and could care less if many people around me follow the liberal line. I know what's right, and I know who's put his foot in it. I think I hear your mother calling. Make sure you clean up the slob den around your computer chair before you go upstairs, 'kay?
I love articles like this!
As homeschooling parents, they help reassure us in times of doubt that we can’t do any worse than the schools!
Cheers!
Thanks for confirming for me that homeschooling my own kid is the right choice.
Research indicates that about 1% of 18-to-20-year-olds use cocaine once or more a month. (http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2k10ResultsTables/NSDUHTables2010R/HTM/Sect1peTabs1to46.htm#Tab1.5B)
No kidding.
For all the government school people who think kids are better off in school than not, actually, the kids wouldn’t be any less educated not in school.
Failure rates like this demonstrate the failure of public education.
The only kids who do well in public schools are the ones with parental involvement, meaning the parents are unofficially and informally homeschooling their on their own time and dime.
The real fruit of the public education system is found in those kids who depend on is solely for their education and so far, it has been nothing but a miserable failure, as evidenced by articles like this.
The seemingly self appointed policeman status.
Phonics is certainly the best way to learn to spell, but I am not sure it is the best way to learn reading. By teaching us to read at sight, one nun had over 120 children in my first grade class reading by the end of the year -- well, that and her fearsome hicory yardstick. I've always been a good reader, and found myself far ahead of neghborhood friends who learned phonetics in public school. Throughout my school years, reading and comprhension were my strongest assets, and I've earned a good living since being able to pick apart the rather dense prose of the Bankruptcy and the Tax Codes. I must admit, however, spelling is a different matter. In this area my skills are not so much, and I blame lack of phonetics for that.
Oddly, when I learned Spanish as an adult, first as a small child might from imersion, and later in an academic setting, I was taught Phonics in Espanol. I noticed the same trade off, slower reading development, but a stronger grasp of spelling.
When a person can sound out an unfamiliar word with the tools phonics provides, he doesn’t have to try to guess how to pronounce it nor guess the meaning of the word by context.
From my experience, not having been taught phonics myself in school, and having my kids learn it from homeschooling, and as a result learning it myself, its benefits FAAARRRR outweigh any perceived drawbacks.
While the speed of learning to read may be (may)initial be a bit faster with the sight reading method, after a certain point, it will even out and the other benefits of the phonics teaching will kick in.
Likely a nun with a hickory yardstick was more incentive to learn to read than the teaching method. It would be interesting to compare results with that motivator removed from the equation.
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