Why are we failing in history, science education?

10-28-2010

Guest blog by Joy Hakim/Washington Post

I keep a list. The story out of Virginia—that cities and hamlets around the state recently spent school funds on a book for 4th graders with an agenda that most Americans reject–-is the latest entry into what is becoming a catalog of schoolbook outrages. The Washington Post broke that story on Oct. 20th. Almost immediately some school districts began pulling the book from classrooms. A few days later the New York Times told us that the World Economic Forum ranked the U.S. 48th, out of 133 developed nations, in the quality of math and science instruction. “48th is not a good place,” said the Times. A month earlier, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported that the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has postponed making a U.S. history test a requirement for high school graduation. (more…)

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