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Reports blame lack of teaching fundamentals for declining U.S. math scores - Washington Times
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A nagging ignorance of fundamentals among K-12 teachers has contributed to historic declines in U.S. math performance, according to two recent studies.
Reports blame lack of teaching fundamentals for declining U.S. math scores - Washington Times
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We spend over $20,000 per year for our high school students with very disappointing results in many districts.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/dumbed-down-schools-well-funded.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/dumbed-down-schools-well-funded.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/democrats-diminishing-public-education.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/03/weve-impaired-our-school-children-for.html
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This Washington Times article focuses on teacher knowledge-skill shortfalls. Based on the time and process to upgrade our existing teachers and the power and influence of the teacher’s unions, it’s doubtful anything significant can be done with them other than expanding private and charter schools.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/07/teacher-union-chiefs-in-charge-of.html
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The lack of student skills and knowledge impact their/our future and entry into college and the workplace:
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Harvard's remedial math course reignites concerns over test-optional pandemic policies
New York Post opinion columnist Rikki Schlott blames scaling back standardized testing for skill gaps
Harvard's new remedial math class raises questions about drop in standards | Fox News
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It’s Not just the academic issues:
Not to worry about our future – our younger generation can:
Text amazingly fast!
Talk all day on a cellphone
Sing several rap-songs
Dress in holy-pants with disheveled hair-style
Articulate their ‘rights’
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The sad and pathetic ‘patch’ being applied is to issue work-study visas to hundreds of thousands of ‘workers’ from other countries to study and do our hi-tech high-paying technical jobs.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-h1b-f1-j1-m1-academic-virus.html
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Reports blame lack of teaching fundamentals for declining U.S. math scores - Washington Times
A nagging ignorance of fundamentals among K-12 teachers has contributed to historic declines in U.S. math performance, according to two recent studies.
The National Council on Teacher Quality reported Tuesday that just 1 in 8 of the 838 elementary teacher training programs it examined nationwide devoted enough time to “fundamental math content topics” such as numbers, operations, algebraic thinking, geometry, measurement, data analysis and probability. There are just over 1,600 colleges of education nationwide.
The teachers’ advocacy group found the average undergraduate teaching program dedicated 85 out of 150 instructional course hours to mathematics content, 20 hours short of what experts recommend. The remaining coursework covered the latest teaching theories.
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