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**yxn2dC07** · 02-03-2012, 05:34 PM

The reason I like posting here is that I think of the audience as very worldly and practical. If anybody can save public education in the US, it's people like that. But notice how theoretical and ideal some of these comments are. Do we have that luxury? The building is on fire. My humble thought is that we must start to put out the fire. In 2007 Bill Gates said the public schools are a threat to the nation's economy. That's the problem I'm trying to deal with. Specifically, and this is so much more economical than everything else you hear about, we need to put renewed emphasis on basic literacy, basic arithmetic, basic knowledge, basic skills, and mastery.
I am afraid that the oncoming juggernaut called Common Core Curriculum is actually going to mean more of the same bad practices of the last 50 years, but locked in by federal law. It'll be easier to start fighting back now.

02-03-2012, 05:34 PM	#7
yxn2dC07 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 548 Senior Member	The reason I like posting here is that I think of the audience as very worldly and practical. If anybody can save public education in the US, it's people like that. But notice how theoretical and ideal some of these comments are. Do we have that luxury? The building is on fire. My humble thought is that we must start to put out the fire. In 2007 Bill Gates said the public schools are a threat to the nation's economy. That's the problem I'm trying to deal with. Specifically, and this is so much more economical than everything else you hear about, we need to put renewed emphasis on basic literacy, basic arithmetic, basic knowledge, basic skills, and mastery. I am afraid that the oncoming juggernaut called Common Core Curriculum is actually going to mean more of the same bad practices of the last 50 years, but locked in by federal law. It'll be easier to start fighting back now.
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