More Time Learning or More Nonsense??

An Opinion from the
Columbian:

In Our View: More learning

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Justifiable demands for improved quality of public education will continue to reverberate fruitlessly until a stark confession is made: Students in Washington state and across America are not spending enough hours and enough days in classrooms.

In the context of parenting, we are simply abandoning our obligation to our children. .......
... According to one Ohio study, four years of high school in the U.S. yields about 1,460 hours per student, but in Japan it’s 3,190 total hours, and in Germany it’s 3,628 hours.....
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Read it all HERE in Southwest Washington's Columbian