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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop teaching so many courses. We could consolidate many ap English and history courses to a series of Humanities courses- literally call them Humanities 1, 2, and 3. Make them rigorous general education courses on US and global history, English Literature, and potentially add in some philosophy/sociology in the later coursework. Increase and normalize the “fast track” where Algebra 1 is taken in 8th grade across the country; then, by senior year have students choose between a project-based stats course or calc.

Stop making students take every class under the sun for elite colleges and have them tested across these two courses: Humanities and Math to free up space for whatever electives they want. If you wanna take Humanities, Calc 3, Physics, Bio, and Chem with a language, do it. If you wanna take Humanities, Stats, Latin, Advanced European history, do it. No reason why we have to take so many classes across the spectrum that we don’t care about.[/quote]
+10! Why do we have so many required courses to get into decent colleges? Yes, the liberal arts matter, [b]but there’s so many degree programs not represented at all[/b].[/quote]

Such as?[/quote]
Any sort of business, sociology/anthropology/area studies, non-Newtonian physics, many schools lacking in CS still, philosophy, hell education itself (I promise you that more students will need to be able to teach someone something effectively in their career than half the things we force them to learn). [/quote]

You're saying those degree programs "aren't represented at all" in universities?  Of course they are!  I'm really not following you.[/quote]
In high school.[/quote]

We don't have "degree programs" in high school.  [/quote]

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