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Thursday, November 13, 2008

as I was saying




Just last week, at the school board meeting, I pointed out that while our kids are constructing their own meaning-slash-knowledge at school, parents are hiring tutors to provide direct instruction at home.

And here it is!

Weapons of Math Destruction
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4 comments:

  1. Niels Henrik AbelNovember 13, 2008 at 8:02 PM

    Sad, but true - there's gold in them thar hills. Build a better mousetrap, and all that stuff.

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  2. SteveHNovember 14, 2008 at 5:48 AM

    The public school teachers who tutor on the side don't use constructivism.

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  3. concernedCTparentNovember 14, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    The public school teachers who tutor on the side don't use constructivism.

    Not when they're tutoring on the side, anyway. When they're in class, however, it may just be a different story.

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  4. Catherine JohnsonNovember 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM

    absolutely

    When public school teachers tutor, they use direct instruction.

    Period.

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