Back in February, a video shot by a student at an American public school titled "Lunch Scholars" went viral on the Internet and cast a dark shadow on the state of the U.S. education system. In it, students were unable to answer basic trivia questions, including everything from names of political figures to U.S. geography. "Do you know the vice president of the United States?" the student asks. "I don't know who it it's, it's, it's somebody....Bin Ladin," one student responds. BLOG POSTS | Meghan Groome: Collaborating to Solve the STEM Teaching Crisis For most K-12 students, the school year has just ended or is about to end. While the kids head out for vacation, a good number of their instructors are deciding whether or not they will return to teaching in the Fall. | | Alex Torre: Never Stop Learning My best piece of advice is to recognize that, as human beings, we will never stop growing and never stop learning. | | Gina Ryder: How a Blind Priest Taught Me To Speak Like many high school girls, I was an upspeak offender. When I talked out loud in class, everything had the spoken equivalent of an ellipsis or a question mark on the end of it. | | Alan Singer: Protest Builds Against Pearson, Testing, and Common Core My big problem with Common Core is that its focus is on the acquisition and measurement of student skills at the expense of learning, understanding, and applying content knowledge about our world. | | Marc Epstein: A School Too Far: Is School Choice Unraveling Education Reform In New York City? At the end of the day, neither public service messages nor increased cooperation between schools, police, and social welfare services will cut the truancy Gordian Knot. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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