nothing will change so long as they view learning as acting white
Posted on 12/05/2017 1:32:43 PM PST by Mariner
SAN DIEGO - A group of prominent lawyers representing teachers and students from poor performing schools filed a lawsuit against the state of California on Tuesday, arguing that the state has done nothing about a high number of school children who do not know how to read.
The advocacy law firm, Public Counsel, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court to demand the California Department of Education address its "literacy crisis." The state has not followed suggestions from its own report on the problem five years ago, according to the lawsuit.
"When it comes to literacy and the delivery of basic education, California is dragging down the nation," said Public Counsel lawyer Mark Rosenbaum, who filed the lawsuit along with the law firm Morrison & Foerster.
Department of Education spokesman Bill Ainsworth said officials could not comment because the state had not yet been served.
Statewide English assessments found less than half of California students from third grade to fifth grade have met statewide literacy standards since 2015.
Both traditional and charter schools are failing, Rosenbaum said.
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Just sue the CTA. They are the teachers and likely
have a better stocked piggy bank than the state.
Perhaps rather than suing the state they should consider suing the parents.
nothing will change so long as they view learning as acting white
Vowel harmony in Turkish makes pronouncing that language easy. The front/back vowel complexities of Irish and Scots Gaelic are challenging. Running words together as is common in spoken French requires lots of practice.
hukt on fonix werkt fer me
LOL. ROTFL. ICU2.
Texting can be conducted in snippets that have meaning without the form of actual words. Emoticons too. 💩
A classroom runs at the speed of the slowest class member you are willing to accommodate. If you go all the way to the bottom, the rest of the classroom is deprived of education at the level that any one of them could attain. I prefer running a self-paced arrangement so the fast ones can achieve to their limits and provide peer mentoring to the less intellectually inclined.
In a former life I taught Adults with ages from 24 to 64ish in each class. While conducting these intense 7 day classes I would have half the room saying “Slow down, slow down”, while the other half was saying “Speed up”. It was a constant issue and when I asked other Instructors how they handled this, They virtually all said they would teach to the lowest common denominator. I couldn’t do this. I felt the advanced learners paid good money and were entitled to a higher level of education and that would pull the others up. I found a balance that would push and satisfy the high level folks while circling back to pull the others along. It worked for me.
Not all Teachers, or even that many of them, are actually any good at teaching. I was told numerous times by highly educated successful students, Phd’s, Engineers, Professors etc, that I was a natural teacher.
The 3 R’s.....Reading, Riting and Rithmetics.....Okay....Reading, Writing and Arithmetic’s.
The foundation of learning....at least in a carnal aspect if not spiritual.
Point taken. However, the question didn’t specifically
mention anything about reading the ‘King’s English’
and it also did not specifically mention whether or
not their method of communication was learned in school
so with your kind permission I will declare my post
to be nominally passable.
Cheers
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