The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students

Post by seanp2k2 » Mon, Jul 25, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

drawkbox wrote: post #20

Testing may be overrated, needed but over emphasized. Finland has a project based education system, turns out it is one of the best in the world. The term is Phenomenon Based Learning [1] but really it is just project based learning which matches the real world more. The tests aren't multiple choice in Finland, you have to find the answer. My favorite classes were project based classes, if they are fun and intriguing…

Yep; US education has now become a game of "teach the kids how to pass the tests, so we can get more money, so we can teach more kids how to pass the tests, repeat". Kids come out of highschool with no idea what they want to do or what reality is like. Schools run like prisons with crazy administrators who would struggle to hold jobs in the world outside of school.

Post by bind » Mon, Jul 25, 2016, 10:35 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #69

bind wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt you'll notice this but blacklisting new users like me -- so that my comments are always shown at the bottom of a thread and never publicly -- has the opposite effect of what you're intending. It pushes good people away. Good people won't keep creating new hackernews accounts to figure out which combination of HN activity won't blacklist them. They'll leave. Possibly taking HN's users with them when they creat…

We don't do that in general. Your comments were getting caught by a software filter—there are a few of those that apply to new accounts, mostly because of past abuse by trolls. I've marked your account legit so this won't happen to it again.

Thanks.

Re: The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students

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