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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, people.  “Cloze” has been used for years in education.  When you do cloze activities, you fill in words that make sense that are missing in sentences.  
It was a play on words that was obviously missed by you all.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cloze-procedure-technique-and-definition.html[/quote]

I've never heard of it and my youngest is currently in 2nd grade. So maybe it has been "used for years" but that certainly doesn't mean that every parent has heard the term. There's no need to be a dick about it.[/quote]

But it's interesting to see how OP reacted, jumping to the conclusion that it was a misspelling. Parents jump to the same conclusions about the way they teach math now. All these parents, thinking they know better than trained teachers, challenging them at every turn, prattling on about Pearson, etc. Like parents are education experts or something. It's truly baffling.[/quote]

Look, every profession comes with some terms of art that are only used amongst those professionals.  If you don't like your professionalism being questioned, don't spill the jargon on a first grade assignment.  You need to distinguish between when you are teaching the students and when you are learning about teaching.  [/quote]

I'm not a teacher. I'm a parent. I'm just annoyed as FUCK at all these other parents who carry on like they know more than the teachers, second-guessing them at every turn. You should see the hysteria over Common Core math. All these ignorant parents upset and taking to social media to profess outrage over the fact that aren't teaching math the way they were taught, not realizing that in fact they didn't really learn anything about number sense.

The arrogance is palpable.
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And your ignorance is palpable. Every 20 years or so educators introduce a new approach to math, but it always fails and they end up going back to the old way. Know why kids in mcps can't do math? There are several reasons, but one obvious one is that most schools make the classroom teacher quickly cycle through three to five groups of kids on different levels--so kids get ten minutes of rapid fire instruction and then go back to their seats to work independently or (play) with a group for the rest of the group. That doesn't happen in private school...where kids tend to succeed. And race and income play into it as well (because that impacts family and housing stability and access to resources in general). That's what the data shows. [/quote]

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