Here’s a quick lesson in how to raise scores.
Throw out all fancy-dancy, education school ideas on education.
Find 1950’s textbooks on math, English, history, and government.
Use those and require memory work, home work, and tracking.
Your scores will sky rocket.
Wow, what a novel idea!
Wait —No high techy, artistic, creative, multi-media, diversity sensitive, cross cultural socially mind broadening materials?
Memorize? Really?
(/sarc -hope it wasn’t needed.)
Just go to your local home-schooling convention and buy textbooks there.
Voucherize, tax-creditize the public schools.
Do anything to create a consumer driven product.
Kill the unions.
Grades will go way up.
I have a solution...teach.
My son, who is a Junior in high school, is telling me that the majority of the teachers just open the book and read to them. There is no effort to explain concepts, give insights, or show applications outside of the examples in the book. This situation has been made worse by the introduction of Common Core.
Additionally, they PILE on extreme amounts of home work. Pages and pages of math problems with NO real explanation of the concept or application, pages of slanted history to read and submit notes on, many pages of reading and summaries to write for English, etc., etc.
I had a 4.35 GPA in high school and graduated college with a 3.62 GPA back in the 80’s. My SAT scores were excellent for the time, 1385 combined I think. My son’s homework, on a typical night, would take me 4 to 5 hours to complete. Every night.
Makes me wish we could home school.
You nailed it!