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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote[b]]You have missed the point. 
Many, many school systems around the world, especially the Asian systems like those in Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc, but also some European systems like I wrote, are training the next generation to be much more competitive than here because their schooling is more rigorous.

Feel free to quibble on minor details. The big picture is that MCPS, and the American approach to education in general, are not sustainable in the long-term. We need curriculae with informative factual content, not "higher-order thinking / creative strategies". We need to use detailed and specific measures to evaluate students' work, not meaningless Ps and Is. We need to train teachers to be precise and rigorous in their teaching, not laissez-faire. We need to pay these teachers more to begin with, so that the cream of the crop will be attracted to the teaching profession! No more wishy-washy murky nonsense[/b][/quote]

+1000! There are too many people in MCPS that don't understand this. In all subjects, but especially STEM, you need rigor to achieve higher order thinking and creativity. As long as MCPS is run by people with education degrees who fear math and science and have no capability in the STEM subjects, you just will not see improvement. [/quote]

I also agree 100%!  This is the crux of the problem and makes me very concerned about MCPS.[/quote]

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