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talkpoliticsI read the speech but failed to understand how is this going to work. So they give 4B for the most "innovative" programs in math and sciences and, of course, the same "No child left behind" idiocy of rewarding better test results.
Innovative math, wtf is that? As far as I know American HS graduates struggle with geometry (circa 300 BC) and colleges treat Calculus (circa 1820) as the cutting edge advanced science. What innovative math could they possibly get if they cannot learn millennia old basics.
And how does rewarding high test results works we have already seen in the No Child Left Behind fiasco. I did not think they can dumb the school curriculum any further but here is the Change - we will get all the schools teaching dumbed down "innovative" sciences in hopes to get a piece of the $4B. Then American companies will have to hire Indian and Chinese mathematicians and scientists, the ones who were taught in a tiered school system where bright children get curriculum adjusted to their own abilities and not to abilities of the dumbest Child, Who Will Not Be Left Behind.
Innovative math, wtf is that? As far as I know American HS graduates struggle with geometry (circa 300 BC) and colleges treat Calculus (circa 1820) as the cutting edge advanced science. What innovative math could they possibly get if they cannot learn millennia old basics.
And how does rewarding high test results works we have already seen in the No Child Left Behind fiasco. I did not think they can dumb the school curriculum any further but here is the Change - we will get all the schools teaching dumbed down "innovative" sciences in hopes to get a piece of the $4B. Then American companies will have to hire Indian and Chinese mathematicians and scientists, the ones who were taught in a tiered school system where bright children get curriculum adjusted to their own abilities and not to abilities of the dumbest Child, Who Will Not Be Left Behind.
Re: Wow.Just.Wow.
Date: 25/11/09 18:04 (UTC)Re: Wow.Just.Wow.
Date: 25/11/09 18:48 (UTC)I really dont see a point in continuing a conversation with someone who uses such kind of rhetorical tricks when they got nothing more to add. All said and done on the subject.
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