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Does someone get a dime every time the same old falsities about #education are published? theamericanscholar.org/why-so-many-ki…
This one is a real (and lengthy) hoot. Hits all the rhetorical sour notes. “scientists have discovered in recent decades that acquiring factual information isn’t a useless, soul-crushing exercise; it’s the prerequisite for higher-order thinking” 🤣
many elementary schools have marginalized or eliminated knowledge-building subjects like social studies and science. The pressure to raise reading and math scores is one factor,
but even more fundamental is the notion that it just isn’t important to have facts about the world stored in long-term memory.” 🤣🤣🤣
I’m going to need stitches @CovingtonEDU
“It’s not uncommon for students at high-poverty high schools to lack basic information like the difference between a city and a state or a country and a continent, or what the American Revolution was.”
“The problem is not that they can’t learn; it’s that no one has deemed it important to give them access to the knowledge for which they’re now being held accountable.”
File under fantasy
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