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...public schools' "most serious problems." Peterson tells us that the "discipline of the marketplace" will accomplish this, or at the very least, get things moving towards this end. But how will this happen? Why should we believe that the invisible hand is good at providing quality in education? Like schoolchildren, we are told to follow a simple analogy: through competition, the marketplace brings out excellence in consumer goods, therefore competition will do the same for schools...
...Fernangeles Elementary: not in neat rows of desks, repeating times tables and memorizing theorems, but through trial-and-error problem solving, often in groups with little direct instruction and almost always with a calculator nearby. Advocates call it "interactive" or "inventive" math and insist that it sets American schoolchildren on the way to becoming "mathematically powerful...
...being closely questioned, America is more diverse than ever. We are living through a period in which 1 of 10 Americans is born abroad and the Lutheran church in St. Louis, Mo., helps pay its utility bills by sharing its sanctuary with Haitian Baptists. More than half the schoolchildren in Garden City, Kans., speak English as a second language, not just the children of Mexican and Vietnamese meat-packers but those of German Mennonites from Argentina as well...
...more importantly, as college students, we have an opportunity to help. Only with increased outreach from institutions of higher education to minority and female schoolchildren can we hope to prepare members of those populations to even be part of the hiring pool. There are a number of excellent public-service opportunities to tutor students in Boston and Cambridge. We can use our ability to teach, to understand and to inspire these kids--the real future professors. Now we have the chance to turn students toward academics. This commitment to education may not be a quick solution, but it would...
...fifth annual Peace Games Festival brought more than 1,300 Boston-area schoolchildren to the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Facility yesterday...