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Topic: Report Says States Aim Low in Science Classes
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Snuckles
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posted 08 December 2005 09:00 AM
quote: By MICHAEL JANOFSKY Published: December 8, 2005WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 - Nearly half the states are doing a poor job of setting high academic standards for science in public schools, according to a new report that examined science in anticipation of 2007, when states will be required to administer tests in the subject under President Bush's signature education law. The report, released Wednesday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, suggests that the focus on reading and math as required subjects for testing under the federal law, No Child Left Behind, has turned attention away from science, contributing to a failure of American children to stay competitive in science with their counterparts abroad. The report also appears to support concerns raised by a growing number of university officials and corporate executives, who say that the failure to produce students well-prepared in science is undermining the country's production of scientists and engineers and putting the nation's economic future in jeopardy.
Read it here. Read the Fordham Foundation's report here. And weep for the state of Kansas (which received an 'F') here.
From: Hell | Registered: Jun 2002
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Hephaestion
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posted 08 December 2005 01:43 PM
quote: The report also appears to support concerns raised by a growing number of university officials and corporate executives, who say that the failure to produce students well-prepared in science is undermining the country's production of scientists and engineers and putting the nation's economic future in jeopardy.
Notice what they're really worried about... "the nation's economic future". Not society in general, not the advancement of knowledge, but the *economy*. The Almighty Dollar.
Mind you, who cares about "the future" anyway, at least after The Rapture, anyway? I mean, after that, it's all going to hell in a handbasket no matter what, right?
You gotta learn to think like these whack-os to understand why they act the way they do. They don't give a shit about "the future". At least, nothing in between immediate profits and immortality, anyway...
From: goodbye... :-( | Registered: Dec 2003
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