based on every school I ever worked in (ending almost exactly eleven years ago), nope.
we've discussed this before. but I can add that when I was working (in both middle schools and high schools) "rote" was considered evil, even to the extent of "policy" forbidding that any time be wasted in class drilling the times tables. at the time…
based on every school I ever worked in (ending almost exactly eleven years ago), nope.
we've discussed this before. but I can add that when I was working (in both middle schools and high schools) "rote" was considered evil, even to the extent of "policy" forbidding that any time be wasted in class drilling the times tables. at the time, my comment was "what the fuck?" and that's still right where I am now.
maybe the policy was based on the notion that every kid uses a calculator now. big, big mistake.
Add that edumacational stupidity to "Whole Language" reading education where a kid was supposed to learn to read by osmosis from sitting in the vicinity of a "Great Book," and you know why the generation now in their 40s and early 50s are mostly functionally illiterate.
The degree Ed.D. should be abolished and its holders stuffed in rockets and fired into the sun. Along with all MBA's.
No. I learned phonics because my two grandmothers were teachers and they taught me before I sent to school. Our 1st grade teacher taught phonics, but the next year they "improved" things with "word recognition" till the reader ran into a word they didn't recognize and didn't have the ability to deal with (as they would have with phonics). This was the first step to functional illiteracy. My brother and sister both got this and neither liked reading as a result. This was followed by "new" math that created math illiteracy. Then they came up with "whole language". Finally when that was such an abject failure that the California Legislature zeroed out the budget line for the perfesserator of edumacation who invented it, thereby getting her ass out of San Bernardino State University (i.e., Cow College U), they brought back phonics some 20 years ago, then quickly added "teach to the test" for No Child Left Uneducated to keep their perfect record of creating a nation of intellectual morons. If all the Ed.Ds of the past 70 years had never existed, American education would still work.
exactly. although I've worked with some excellent people with Ed.D. degrees, but that excellence had nothing to do with their degrees.
on the other hand, an MBA isn't just worthless (my understanding is that at the "best" universities, the content is mostly just schmoozing about "case histories), it looks like it's guaranteed to make people worse than they were before they got to those universities.
I'm told that the skills you actually NEED to run a business (something I've always been allergic to even considering) are taught at the undergraduate level.
based on every school I ever worked in (ending almost exactly eleven years ago), nope.
we've discussed this before. but I can add that when I was working (in both middle schools and high schools) "rote" was considered evil, even to the extent of "policy" forbidding that any time be wasted in class drilling the times tables. at the time, my comment was "what the fuck?" and that's still right where I am now.
maybe the policy was based on the notion that every kid uses a calculator now. big, big mistake.
Add that edumacational stupidity to "Whole Language" reading education where a kid was supposed to learn to read by osmosis from sitting in the vicinity of a "Great Book," and you know why the generation now in their 40s and early 50s are mostly functionally illiterate.
The degree Ed.D. should be abolished and its holders stuffed in rockets and fired into the sun. Along with all MBA's.
...and I still can't figure out why people have problems with phonics. isn't that how most of us learned to read?
No. I learned phonics because my two grandmothers were teachers and they taught me before I sent to school. Our 1st grade teacher taught phonics, but the next year they "improved" things with "word recognition" till the reader ran into a word they didn't recognize and didn't have the ability to deal with (as they would have with phonics). This was the first step to functional illiteracy. My brother and sister both got this and neither liked reading as a result. This was followed by "new" math that created math illiteracy. Then they came up with "whole language". Finally when that was such an abject failure that the California Legislature zeroed out the budget line for the perfesserator of edumacation who invented it, thereby getting her ass out of San Bernardino State University (i.e., Cow College U), they brought back phonics some 20 years ago, then quickly added "teach to the test" for No Child Left Uneducated to keep their perfect record of creating a nation of intellectual morons. If all the Ed.Ds of the past 70 years had never existed, American education would still work.
exactly. although I've worked with some excellent people with Ed.D. degrees, but that excellence had nothing to do with their degrees.
on the other hand, an MBA isn't just worthless (my understanding is that at the "best" universities, the content is mostly just schmoozing about "case histories), it looks like it's guaranteed to make people worse than they were before they got to those universities.
I'm told that the skills you actually NEED to run a business (something I've always been allergic to even considering) are taught at the undergraduate level.