Re: Why do so many kids do badly with math and science?

On 12 Dec 2005 20:42:40 -0800, "cjorp@xxxxxxxxx" <cjorp@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>toto wrote:
>
>> That just seems so odd to me. My kids had to take American History
>> to graduate from high school and they had an exam to pass or they
>> couldn't graduate. Admittedly, they attended a very good school.
>
>We had to take American History too, but they didn't have to actually
>teach us anything while we were in there. There weren't any required
>tests prior to graduation when I was in the local high schools; such
>tests have been introduced now, but are over such trivial language and
>math issues that all of my honors students (most of my private students
>are honors students) pass them the first year, in ninth grade. There
>are no tests covering things like history or science per se.

Interesting. While I don't think the standardized tests are a very
good measure of what has been taught, in my children's schools,
there were two exams they had to pass. One was American History
and the other was Consumer Education, I think. For the others,
they didn't have standardized exams they had to pass to graduate
(this was in the 80s and early 90s - my kids were born in the early
70s).

I grew up in New York State and in those days, you could graduate
with a general diploma, but if you wanted a regents diploma, you
had to take and pass the regent's exams in every subject you took
that had such an exam. Most of the college prep courses had those,
so I had to pass the English, History, Math and Science regents for
each year that I took such courses.


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