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...example correct a student has to correctly complete 10-14 mixed computations in addition to the correct placement of the partial products, which depend on place value knowledge or remembering the rote rule. This is a wonderful example of an exercise that is far more easily solved mentally. Perhaps we should be teaching this...
...during his career at Indiana for violent and/or threatening behavior toward fellow staff members, players and game officials. He's been accused of making racist comments on multiple occasions. He's been publicly reprimanded by the university so often that everyone involved can probably do the whole thing by rote...
...Mitchell brothers did a remarkable thing: they mainstreamed skin flicks with Behind the Green Door. The brothers Emilio Estevez (who directs here) and Charlie Sheen have done a remarkable thing too: they've rendered sex and drugs drop-dead boring. This interminable biopic follows the smuteurs through a rote spiral of success, addiction and doom, with porn-quality dialogue and laughably trippy camera work. We've seen all that before, and it's a good thing. If we had seen this first, it might have ruined porn for us forever...
...caused it all--the attitude, he says, that "we can't trust poor parents to make a decision for their children." His hands reach out as he speaks. His eyes are animated, especially when the subject is education or the need to treat immigrants with respect. "This sounds like rote," he told TIME after unspooling a riff on how to improve schooling for the underclass. "It's not! It's what I believe! It's not somebody writing a speech for me. It's my passion...
Some teachers, who resent any challenge to their autonomy, gripe that structured curriculums merely supply rote facts while stifling creativity among teachers and students alike. "The only teaching this does is to make kids cough up answers on command," says Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve. Adds Linda McNeil, a professor of education at Rice University: "They'll drive out the best teachers and give the weakest a place to hide...