More Public School Nonsense
More than half of Grade 12 students failed 2009 math exam
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1189774.html
“More than half of Nova Scotia’s Grade 12 students are struggling with mathematics… Only 45 per cent of pupils passed the provincial examination last year…”
The Kids Can’t Read
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/21/the-kids-cant-read
“Forty percent of Atlanta eight-grade students tested Below Basic proficiency in reading… Far too few children, no matter their socioeconomic background, can read well enough to function in an economy in which literacy is more-important than ever… Few university schools of education (which educate most of our teachers) do a proper job of teaching aspiring students how to address reading… During the 1970s and 1980s, states embraced Whole Language and ignored phonics, forgetting that kids need to know how to also sound words. Only after states saw reading scores decline did they reverse course.”
Florida school district bans Bibles on Religious Freedom Day
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features-the-religion-world/2010/07/01/florida-school-district-bans-bibles-on-religious-freedom-day/
“School officials claim that Bibles do not provide any educational benefit to the students…”
Consider all the historical figures who began their education with the only book their families owned – the Bible.
Home Computers Have Led To Lower Test Scores In Younger Children – Study
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/home_computers_have_led_lower_test_scores_younger_children_study#comments
“Students in grades five through eight, particularly those from disadvantaged families, tend to post lower scores once these technologies arrive in their home.”
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