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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s always amusing when people post nostalgia for they way they were taught, as if those archaic methods were superior.[/quote]
Do you work in curriculum and instruction?  I would be interested to hear the researchers and studies you find to be most important on this topic.  [/quote]

The archaic methods yielded superior test scores across the board.

And to the PP who cited "critical thinking skills," your child cannot think critically about any topic where they lack content knowledge.  Having kids analyze two primary documents and then arguing whether the U.S. should have dropped the atomic bomb is NOT critical thinking.  It contributes to a culture where people have strong opinions about issues where they entirely lack context.

Most college professors will agree that writing skills have massively decreased, along with the ability to argue, so "critical thinking skills" as currently taught have gotten your kids no where.[/quote]

… they didn’t “yield superior test scores across the board.” For one thing, you get what you measure. But comparing what is measured today versus 40 years ago when I was in school? They aren’t the same thing.

It’s like that weird reaction to Common Core math a few years back. All these people moaning that they weren’t teaching math the way they learned it, ergo the new teaching methods were bad. They weren’t — the way WE were taught was bad. [/quote]

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