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Many school textbooks woefully outdated - Deep cuts in funding shackle teachers
Houston Chronicle ^
| September 2, 2003
| APRIL CASTRO, AP
Posted on 09/02/2003 3:49:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: lawdude
It's called **revisionist history**. :o/
To: mathluv
Perhaps it also would depend on the student. My daughter has experienced the exact opposite of what you're suggesting.
To: Thebaddog
Maybe they should write text books with longer life spans instead of being topical to the minute like Newsweek. It's called planned obsolescence. It keeps taxpayer funded book expenses unnecessarily high... though unnecessarily high expenditures is a central characteristic of public schools.
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posted on
09/12/2003 10:42:35 AM PDT
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Dataman
To: BushCountry
Saxon math has never met the standards set by the state. Both my kids were raised on Saxon. My oldest graduated with the highest gpa of her class. My son is two years ahead in pre calc and programs the teacher's TI. He also had the highest gpa of his class and likely will this year too.
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posted on
09/12/2003 10:45:34 AM PDT
by
Dataman
To: ladylib
They usually cut bus service first, just to sock it to the parents Here they cut bus service, proposed a 4-day school week (found to be illegal), cut sports and band, cut teachers and increased class sizes. What they didn't cut was administration, administration raises, administrative office remodeling, new administrative computers and office furniture and air conditioning.
You're right. It's a racket.
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posted on
09/12/2003 10:48:59 AM PDT
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Dataman
To: quack
My daughter attends a private school that I pay a whopping $200 a year for books Wait till she gets to college $600-$800 a semester is typical.
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posted on
09/12/2003 10:50:57 AM PDT
by
Dataman
To: homeschool mama
Chicago math was developed at the University of Chicago, and is the other end of the spectrum from Saxon. Saxon even bought full page ads in NCTM journals asking UC to go head to head in school tests on which way was better.
Saxon is based on a lot of review. UC is based on application. I prefer something in the middle. Application helps students see how math applies in everyday world, review reinforces what they need to learn.
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posted on
09/12/2003 11:06:59 AM PDT
by
mathluv
To: homeschool mama
Forgot to address Singapore math. It has a website - don't know the url. It is used by homeschoolers, not regular schools that I know of. I think, from what I have read or been told, that it has a lot of drill.
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posted on
09/12/2003 11:08:49 AM PDT
by
mathluv
To: Dataman
It's also a characteristic of centralized governments with no accountability. Hey, that sounds like a dictatorship, as well!
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posted on
09/12/2003 11:09:39 AM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Fetch this!)
To: homeschool mama
He was in a private Christian school.
To: Dataman
I was being sarcastic.Funny these public schools complain about funding,but I pay less for my daughters education and books per year than the public school system does per year/per student.Even though the school she attends had the highest SAT's in the state last year.
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posted on
09/12/2003 11:47:36 AM PDT
by
quack
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I think a lot of money is wasted on all these overly-expensive books. They don't need those fancy books and don't get their money's worth out of them unless they read them cover-to-cover and even then, they are not worth their high cost. Another scam imo.
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posted on
09/12/2003 11:51:06 AM PDT
by
Aliska
To: luckystarmom
Oh. Thanks for clarifying. :o)
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