How to fix our crisis
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Anonymous
| As much as we talk about the difficulty of college admissions, American high school students are not learning enough content to compete in a global market. The SAT is not rigorous and barely tests at a pre-calculus level. Our students are dropping out of STEM programs like flies, and students aren’t graduating with the skills needed to compete in the entry level market. What reforms should we make? |
Anonymous
| Is the U.S. lagging in the global economy now? Didn’t notice that |
Anonymous
| Lots of false premises there bro |
Anonymous
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Making calculus a graduation requirement and not guaranteeing a high school diploma would fix a ton of our issues
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Anonymous
No one said that. This is an example of how reading comprehension has also suffered substantially. |
Anonymous
Make an argument, bro. |
Anonymous
About what? |
Anonymous
| We could start by getting rid of Test Optional (cant wait to read about this nonsense in the history books - justifiied by it's "too easy" to fake with testing but total un-uniform GPAs are more reliable). We could start with lengthening the school day and the school year. Getting rid of retests and No-Fail policies. Strong intervention in early elementary for kids falling behind. Less focus on playing 3 travel sports and more focus on education and learning (not just rote memory but true education). Empahsis on critical thinking. Bring back cursive writing. No Cell Phones in schools. Get rid of Teachers Unions and pay good teachers 100-150K a year. Fire low results teachers. Make measurements public for both schools and teachers. Limit class sizes to 25. Have chatGPT write the curriculms so they arent dull, as they often are. |
Anonymous
No one is going to teach you what to think. You’re gonna have to learn that on your own. |
Anonymous
And no one is going to teach you how to write in a coherent way. It’s entirely unclear whether you are suggesting that high school graduates aren’t able to compete effectively in a global market or if college grads aren’t. You aren’t making any sense. |
Anonymous
| If the SAT isn’t rigorous enough then why do so few students get a perfect score ? Why do students who are focused on humanities need to be required to take calculus in high school? |
Anonymous
How ridiculous. Unless one is going into a STEM field, calculus is completely unnecessary - and useless. |
Anonymous
What’s your point? Other cultures learn much more rigorous math education. The SAT isn’t rigorous, because it’s an accurate benchmark for educational quality in the US: poor. Of course not that many people get a perfect score, because the students aren’t learning that much in the first place. Everyone should be able to do calculus to receive a diploma. We used to also not teach beyond geometry, we can move the ladder again. |
Anonymous
“Calculus is useless” is exactly why our education system is so bad. So many parents happy to have ignorant kids. |
Anonymous
Almost nobody uses Calculus in the real world. |