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Fuzzy math: A nationwide epidemic
By Michelle Malkin
My column this week covers the long-fought fuzzy math wars and the parental revolt against poisonous edu-fads. The Texas state school board voted before Thanksgiving to ditch the infamous “Everyday Math” textbook for third-graders. This is the faulty curriculum the NYC schools were forced to adopt despite an outcry from teachers and parents. It’s difficult to find a school district where this dumbed-down virus hasn’t infected the education bureaucracy.
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The Teacher As Bully
By Bill Page
Education Consultant
Students who don't conform, don't hand in assignments, don't abide by rules and procedures, and who are disengaged, apathetic, and oblivious to bad marks, test results, and low grades, are the scourge of every teacher, though such students exist to varying degrees and numbers in every classroom.
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WALKING TARGETS: How Our Psychologized Classrooms Are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks
Beverly Eakman
Walking Targets exposes how the greatest coup of the millennium came off without firing a shot. Professional agitators-cum-educators have wrested control from a population still committed to the nation's founding principles and family values, by stigmatizing their values as "inflexible" and "dogmatic," and labeling their children as mentally ill.
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The Limits of Clear Language Orwell worried about polluted language, but polluted information is more toxic
Columbia Journalism Review
By Nicholas Lemann
Can there be a political writer who has not fallen in love with George Orwell’s 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language”? Part of its appeal is what’s appealing about all of Orwell—its directness and honesty, its plainspokenness, its faith, against all evidence, that human affairs can be conducted morally, its sense of being on the side of ordinary people, not of the sophisticated and powerful.
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Dumb about Education
Columbia Journalism Review
It's always been a bridesmaid…last night, it got jilted
By Megan Garber
If presidential debates are glorified beauty pageants, education reform is their "world peace"—it's something that everyone likes to talk about, that everyone likes to hear about, and that no one seems to have any idea how to make happen.
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National Math Panel Unveils Draft Report
United States Department of Education
The working report also spells out specific concepts in math that are too often neglected in pre-K through grade 8 math instruction generally, such as fractions, whole numbers, and particular elements of geometry and measurement...calculators have shown "limited to no impact on calculation skills, problem-solving competencies, or conceptual development."
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