tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post6268614379465957193..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: "College and Career Ready"Darrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-54530989272247452682015-01-13T08:28:14.380-08:002015-01-13T08:28:14.380-08:00I get all twitchy when I hear that phrase. It driv...I get all twitchy when I hear that phrase. It drives me mad how we got to this place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-45534559476693336332014-12-20T20:26:50.489-08:002014-12-20T20:26:50.489-08:00If you want to trace this, it goes back to when Go...If you want to trace this, it goes back to when Governor White of Texas turned over reorganizing education in the state of Texas to H. Ross Perot. Perot saw no point in art or humanities and would have jettisoned all humanities for hard sciences and math if not for parent opposition. Since then this has evolved into the STEM model, which is ironic since most people who excel in innovation take some type of art or humanities related discipline. A good friend of mine, a stellar AP Chem teacher, tried to have his dissertation that high stakes testing was not an accurate predictor of college achievement. They turned him down BECAUSE all the state universities get money for writing portions of the tests given in Texas.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-77924529323108930792014-12-17T19:28:42.909-08:002014-12-17T19:28:42.909-08:00weird, as a business student, I don't believe ...weird, as a business student, I don't believe that an engineering student or a nursing or an education student and I have the same needs to be college and career ready...<br /><br />I probably don't need to know how to administer an IV or build a hovercraft. I don't think a future nurse or engineer really wants to know how SAP or any other business DMS system works either.<br /><br />One size fits all does not work in this case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-38705359341764882142014-12-17T19:26:11.165-08:002014-12-17T19:26:11.165-08:00That phrase has snookered an enormous number of pe...That phrase has snookered an enormous number of people. Lots of groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce and college math and science teachers, have embraced the core when they really shouldn't have, and largely done so because of that marketing phrase. If they had looked beyond the slogan, many of those groups would have been appalled. Auntie Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05777983027361603449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-9427855289423584512014-12-17T11:14:23.330-08:002014-12-17T11:14:23.330-08:00That lovely marketing phrase is a brilliant produc...That lovely marketing phrase is a brilliant product of America's thriving and successful education industry CEOs!<br />Pseudotsugahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04113260814272433972noreply@blogger.com