tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post8154919750515777296..comments2024-02-16T06:29:33.587-08:00Comments on Welcome to " The Math UnderGround " -- Seattle & Washington State: Fact Sheet of 19 pointsdan dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15536720661510933983noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-45433952889286247902008-02-11T16:28:00.000-08:002008-02-11T16:28:00.000-08:00Oops, Seattle hasn't got the money to pay for text...Oops, Seattle hasn't got the money to pay for textbooks.<BR/><BR/>What are the odds that OSPI provides an assistance grant to pay for textbooks, provided the district selects one of the DOE's exemplary?! textbooks? So much for a Democracy.<BR/><BR/>This is a common ploy. So lets pretend our society is colorless and see what happens. This is no different than apartheid and the less objective and opaque we are, the angrier our society will become. <BR/><BR/>This will be no different than the demonstrations that started in the 60's once minorities realize fewer of their children are finishing high school, much less going to college. More now than ever before. It won't take much to light that match, but once it starts it won't stop. The DOE can stop tracking students, but it won't change reality. It is easy enough to take a sample by simply asking a 100 people if they finished four years of high school. Times are a changing. My count was 1 in 10 finished at the same school they started and their worst subject was math.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-90490640179325432102008-02-09T10:25:00.000-08:002008-02-09T10:25:00.000-08:00OUTSTANDING BULLET POINTS!and follow up analysis. ...OUTSTANDING BULLET POINTS!<BR/><BR/>and follow up analysis. <BR/><BR/>one thing one political party has learned VERY well, <BR/><BR/>and the same thing another political party has NOT learned,<BR/><BR/>is that most people will kind of pay attention to the analysis,<BR/><BR/>IFF the soundbites get their interest. <BR/><BR/>I've been trying to interest / sell very politically active Dems on this math fiasco, and they'll only listen cuz they are polite people and cuz they know me. <BR/><BR/>After 20 seconds, just like after 20 seconds with adolescents, you can see their eyes wandering and you can hear them checking out. <BR/><BR/>THANKS FOR THE GREAT SOUNDBITES. <BR/><BR/>anon till 4 julyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4983334520933101277.post-22838530361058044102008-02-08T23:14:00.000-08:002008-02-08T23:14:00.000-08:00Look at the validation committee for the WASL - 3 ...Look at the validation committee for the WASL - 3 were evaluators for the standardized curriculum. Another is a software developer. The standardized curriculum has nothing to do with any state standards. In a fraction of studies done on the middle school curriculum, only 10 met review standards for research and all of these studies were flawed since the protocols were either ignored or modified. So for instance, only students in upper math tracks were tested with units and not textbooks. Most student populations, the children had been trained with traditional textbooks. Teachers were allowed to supplement materials and this was not documented. The piloting and evaluation used teachers in training programs, as with PIT in Pittsburgh. <BR/><BR/>The researchers were only interested in getting good reviews because that's what NSF wants published. Many of these people were former colleagues holding positions in Project 2061, MAA, NCTM and AAAS. That's what ties them all together.<BR/><BR/>The charter reformers, like the Broad Foundation know its bad curriculum, but it enables them to carry out their goals - take control of school districts, privatize support services, and close urban schools. Each of the school districts they've controlled has been run into the dirt with huge deficits and outsider consulting fees with no-bid contracts. <BR/><BR/>Phillips and Goodloe are perfect. Bersin, etc for example. <BR/><BR/>If adults would force themselves to think and read these lousy books they would see for themselves what our children have been facing their entire lives in school. The most ridiculous way to teach children anywhere in the world exists right here in the US. <BR/><BR/>And too, haven't you created a shortage of engineers and technicians by not educating children. Doesn't it allow politicians to do what the Abramoff's of this world want - open US borders to hire trained workers. Could our government and leaders be so shiftless as to undermine our country and sell it out from beneath us? Which Republican was it that said - Let them eat the whole cake? <BR/><BR/>Had students actually taken a real algebra class, perhaps they would have passed a test that required little more than a knowledge of fractions and division.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com