Word: curriculums
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...blamed for segregating--unintentionally or not--poor and minority students into low-paying careers. In his proposed budget this year, President Bush would eliminate all federal spending on vocational ed to pay for his No Child Left Behind high school initiatives, which are geared toward a precollege curriculum. But in his state budget this year Schwarzenegger is asking for $50 million in new funds for high school vocational-ed programs. Last year he pushed through $20 million in new funds. "I have talked to many kids who tell me they don't want to go to college, so why graduate...
...cases like Susan's, American public education may be a victim of its own ambition. Rallying around the notion that every child should be prepared for higher education, schools follow a general-education model that marches students through an increasingly uniform curriculum, with admission to college as the goal. But what happens when a 17-year-old decides, rightly or wrongly, that her road in life doesn't pass through college? Then the college-prep exercise becomes a charade. At Shelbyville High School, as elsewhere, the general-education model became an all-or-nothing game that left far too many...
...says the former teacher, though its influence isn't straightforward. He tells of two fathers who each withdrew their daughter from the same Year 4 class in northern Tasmania: one felt too much time was being wasted on Easter and Christmas frippery; the other objected to the humanistic curriculum, "so that teacher was damned either way." Some parents act on the view that the drudgery of school dulls children's desire to learn. Others recognize that while a teacher in charge of 30 children has no hope of catering to their different levels of intelligence and motivation (never mind their...
...scores back, the kids have already completed a whole other half year of school in another grade,” Walser said. “It’s really way too late to affect the kind of budgetary shifts that you might want to make or shifts in curriculum that you might want to make to help those kids.” Walser also said that she was worried about the pressure that testing has on schools. “A lot of the downsides of the MCAS system is that it...encourages quick fixes, like what we call...
...We’ve really refreshed our curriculum...to challenge our students to the utmost,” Graney says. “This year our show will be the culmination of our new focus and our renewed dedication to introducing our students to movement and dance...