Schools are also doing away with cursive reading and writing.
Schools are also doing away with cursive reading and writing.
If we want our education system to match that of other countries, we’ll need to find out what those other countries do to keep THEIR students from dropping out.
It’s sad that there’s no measure on the other end of the scale - how many students received an adequate eduation as a result of the change in standards? The brighter students were being kept down to ensure the lowest rungs “passed.” But that harms their futures. When the standards were improved, how did it impact those upper rung students’ ability to find work and functionm regardless of race? How about the lower students who didn’t drop out but actually achieved the new requirements? How did it impact their futures?
Tiers were regarded as racist but are needed to ensure that the brighter students are challenged as well as providing those who will drop out rather than face rigorous requirements with the basic literacy skills they are willing to achieve.
Unless you are a design engineer of various disciplines a working knowledge of 3,4,5 right triangle and the area of parallelograms, circles and triangles will get you through life just fine.
Bumping into the bell curve.