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Pittsburgh Schools declare all assignments half done. Is that optimism? Or delusion?
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What I'm reading:Norwich's Byzantium: The Early Centuries, Catholicism for Dummies
What's up next: Graham Robb's Victor Hugo, Clary's Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution
What the kids are being read: Kipling's Captains Courageous (GIC version), Wilder's Farmer Boy
What the kids are interested in: Tall Girl: Holly Hobbie (old and new), Littlest Pet Shops, classic princesses; The Boy: Legos, Star Wars, Hot Wheels; Spitfire: Disney Barbies, Her Sister's Toys; Weeble: Rolling Things, Nesting Blocks
1 Comments:
If the kids are flunking math, do they really think they'll appreciate the nuances of how much it'll take them to catch up? I mean, Johnny doesn't know what 8x7 is, but he's going to understand averages?!
This may be hardhearted of me, but I'm more inclined to the approach of an engineering prof that a friend of mine had: no partial credit. His point was that if your bridge collapsed, if your motherboard shorted and caused a fire, or whatever other engineering disaster might occur, there was no partial credit. People weren't less dead, and your engineering wasn't less incompetent.
Maybe that's a little harsh for K-12, but frankly, I'd like to see some data on how Pittsburgh students do academically, both in K-12 and college (and how many of them go to college, for that matter), compared to similar cities (NOT Detroit - we're a train wreck). I have trouble believing that they would stack up favorably to students from a district with a less lenient policy.
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