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>We're still over-emphasizing passing grades over effectively growing new American citizens... 2/3rds of state legislatures are actively hostile to basic tenet
by cvsh 9y ago
>We're still over-emphasizing passing grades over effectively growing new American citizens...
2/3rds of state legislatures are actively hostile to basic tenets of science, let alone the government teaching "effective American citizenship".
We just recently legalized malpractice for financial advisors. The rules preventing them from screwing their clients out of their retirement savings were spun as hurting consumer choice. Imagine how it'd be spun if there was a movement for public schools to teach "effective citizenship".
- jacobush 9y agoTeaching terrorism, no doubt.
- gwenzek 9y ago> We just recently legalized malpractice for financial advisors. Do you have reference?
- derivagral 9y agoLink[1] is from forbes, but you get the idea. Matt Levine mentioned it once or twice in his column a week or 3 ago. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiehopkins/2017/02/03/trump-signs-executive-order-shelving-fiduciary-standard-for-financial-advisors https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiehopkins/2017/02/03/trump-s...
- pizza 9y agoIt would be nice if schools allocated more time for the young kids to get to share with teachers which topics that they wanted to know more about, just a block of unstructured time like the agoras of Ancient Greece. Just some form of rubric-free authentic curiosity-driven discourse, to break out of the teacher-student hierarchical relation a bit and to widen their understanding of learning, I suppose.