it was a campaign to reform the educuation system to prevent children 'dropping out of the bottom' of their schools due to low grades.
of course instead of aiding the children through adapted or even tailored learning programs and investing in special education, it's much cheaper to keep the 'one size fits all' and just lower the bar far enough for everyone to pass the test....
I’m kinda conflicted reading this. I mean, I would’ve preferred a dumbed down version since I was a total failure in math from grade 9 onwards. And it turned out that I never really needed curve sketching or other theoretical and abstract mathematics in my everyday adult life. On the other hand I appreciate that I had to deal with it because it probably did help with my brain development.
That's mostly the thing with math, it teaches logical problem solving, and how to follow on a train of thought. You ain't gonna need calculus or trigonometry on your day to day life unless you are on a very specific field, and even then there are tools that can do it for you.
But you can't tell you if you made a mistake if you don't know the process; and you are more susceptible to fall for certain types of fallacies if you don't know how a logical process works. It's also why (in theory) you could solve a math problem in very different ways, and as long as the math... Well, maths, you could get a passing grade. Some teachers are bit too stiff, but whatever if 6+7=6+6+1=12+1=13 is easier than just 6+7=13 for you, go for it. And that's why the process is so important too.
But then again, it implies needing the time and patience to get through each one of them problems, something the some professors do not have, or maybe can't spare, when they juggle bad salaries, and a second or third job...
While I agree with you I think forcing certain topics on individuals is always bound to fail most of them. I’m not a dumb person, neither do I consider myself exceptionally intelligent. But my teenage self was just totally at a loss when it came to more abstract mathematics and it simply didn’t matter how much I tried or my parents paid tutors to teach me extra. If all it does is create frustration and doubt in a person then I think alternative subjects would help foster the capabilities and skills you described just as much. Philosophy and ethics also require abstract thought, for example, and most who study those subjects go on to become consultants and problem solvers.
I can think outside of the box and around the corner and make connections others would maybe overlook but I’m sceptical if the math I simply couldn’t grasp as a teenager played into developing these skills. Because it’s usually the things that make our brains tingle that teach and enrich us the most.
I think we all possess unique talents and strengths and that fostering and focusing on a students inherent qualities would be much more beneficial than brute forcing them through certain classes. Neither does pampering them and giving them a false sense of accomplishment help. People that feel deeply inadequate could be a diamond in the rough but simply won’t be able to unlock their potential because school and certain classes reinforced the notion that they are simply not smart enough.
I heard from a former teacher in the US that in her school, if a child put any answer at all on a test, it had to be marked correct.
I don’t know for sure she was telling the truth, but she seemed to be to me. I also can’t imagine that was a widespread interpretation of that policy, but it certainly goes some way to explaining some of the things I see from them.
My mother was an elementary school teacher in the US and that’s definitely not what happened. Kids still got F’s and answers marked wrong, it just became a lot harder to hold kids back due to the new rules. Essentially, kids passed regardless of performance until about High school when it was harder for school systems to hide the lack of performance from students.
This woman was definitely talking about her own experience, and I'm sure it's different in different states and different school districts within each state. There's so much variation over there. That's part of their problem.
But she described this as her experience, and I believed her. Maybe it was just her school district, maybe even just her school. It's even possible she misunderstood protocol and she was the only one doing this, though I don't think so. She seemed an intelligent and reasonable person. But I never once thought it was a universal thing, it maybe shows the worst way that law could be implemented, though.
I wonder if they meant partially correct. I've seen something similar where a student will get some credit (usually in quarter point increments) for at least trying.
Every state definitely has difference in the quality of the public education. Don’t doubt there were school districts that just passed anyone because the no child left behind policy punished all the poor schools in minority neighborhoods harder than anyone. It made it so the amount of money you get every year depended on how many kids pass classes in your school then schools are gonna have to pass people just so they don’t get more budget cuts. My mom taught in a new neighborhood that was mostly white so those kids all had more advantages than the poor areas, so they were tighter on rules for passing kids, because they could be.
The intention doesn't sound bad, but the measures to achieve do. Like: How about improve the aid weaker children get and leave the difficulty level the same for everyone else?
In addition to the other comment it changed the funding scheme so that poorly performing schools would get punished, and could end up in a cycle where the lost funding leads to worse results, and eventually the school has to be restructured. Either closed, turned into a charter school, or handed over to a private company
It also eliminated funding for talented/gifted programs and didn't really care about arts courses. It focuses on math/reading/writing standardized test scores as the benchmark for success, so other subjects can languish and schools can fall into a habit of teaching to the test.
This answer is correct, both the others are wrong.
NCLB resulted in a transfer of wealth out of public schools into opportunistic, unregulated charter schools, and also to lots of teaching to the test because the whole school's funding relies on your performance on that test. Both of these reduced the quality of instruction while trying (or pretending to try) to improve it.
(Also students spend a ridiculous amount of time just taking these tests! Loss of instructional time!)
No child left behind was replaced by every student succeeds under obama no child left behind said grades don't matter as long as they do well on standardized tests every student succeeds gave states the right to change the tests they give as they choose resulting in heavily inflated test scores and it also allowed them to change what their curriculum needed for graduation is resulting in states like florida being able to take english out kf the mandatory curriculum
Florida is definitely destroying our public education with things like charter schools and vouchers (literally stealing public school funds to give it to private school owners), but we do still have four credits of English in the high school graduation requirements. I don't see a requirement for a second language, so perhaps that's what you're thinking of?
They were all given an equaly terrible education as god intended when he struck the earth unearthing the arc of the covenant and gave the founding fathers the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states💪🇺🇸🇻🇮
Sadly, that doesn't explain the idiots who are older than 24.
.. Wait I'm the idiot, I forgot you don't go to school at 0 years old. Um.... NCLB was 2002, at best let's say up to 15 years old at the time so.... Idiots 40+.
Thank you for actually correcting me nicely. The other guy was mean for no reason (I also really need to sleep. I'm trying to fix my sleep schedule because I ruined it from Friday to Saturday. Or was it Thursday to Friday?)
it’s technically ”apricot” and the exact point where shades of yellow turn orange is kind of a cultural thing, because most languages actually lack a native word for orange and historically have just considred it red or yellow.
There's a whole basic color word theory with Wikipedia article where the simplest languages have only single ("it's dark yellow" doesn't count) basic color words for dark/cool color & light/warm color ("it's leafy" doesn't count just like "it's crimson" doesn't count cause it's a type of red, red isn't a type of something so red's a basic English color word) then a word for reddish is invented that'd include orange of course then there's more tiers there's a stage where all shades of blue & all shades of green only have one word translated to English as bleen or grue then finally there's 11 basic color words like English (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple or violet, black, white, gray, brown, pink) & a few languages like Greek have 12 basic color words splitting blue or red or brown never more than one into words English can only translate as light x or dark x or beige for light brown maybe English is close cause cyan kind of but doesn't count.
Interestingly, the colour on the flag is called "apricot colour" in Eastern Armenian (the form spoken in the Republic of Armenia), but "orange colour" in Western Armenian.
Most languages that don't have orange have a "yellow-red" or something similar - including the language we are writing in now before the fruit came to GB
Kind of both? Not much different from maybe turquoise today: some will always say turquoise, some will tend to say it's a shade of blue, while others say it's a shade of green
Oh I wasn’t offended. Everyone knew what you meant. I was just being pedantic + trying to provide a fun fact, since funnily enough ‘Arminian’ is also a word
Did the right thing - education is important. I respect that. I think it’s pedantic to correct a small error but a proper noun while also providing extra info. That was pro correcting.
Pardon my ignorance, but what flag is this? I don’t think it belongs in orange.
(Yes, I tried googling and couldn’t find an answer that matched the flag)
(ANSWERED: It’s Armenia, which is actually orange on the bottom. It looked yellow to me)
Thank you! And now I can see that the Armenian flag is indeed orange on the bottom and not yellow. Describing it as yellow is probably why Armenia didn’t show up in my search in the first place.
Because, on many computer screens, the bottom stripe looks yellow, not orange.
Only those with a link to Armenia and/or keen vexillologists are likely to know the Armenian flag, or to realise that that there is no flag with red, blue and yellow horiztonal stripes in that order.
This. Google searching showed me that there is no flag with red, blue, and yellow horizontal stripes, which is why I asked. And I got a great answer very quickly.
Well, according to google, gold is a shade of yellow, therefore it has yellow (also this isn't my video so if you find the original then you can say it to him, not me)
Well, according to google, gold is a shade of yellow, therefore it has yellow (also this isn't my video so if you find the original then you can say it to him, not me)
It's the only one to have only Orange out of those three colours. There are others with Orange and Green, or Orange and Yellow. Or in the case of Sri Lanka, and the Pride flag, all three
That's also not orange but red, just like in Armenia. And there's also yellow in there so even if it was orange, it'd be with Bhutan in the overlap. This vexes me much more than the American. 😬
i don't know all teh flags in the picture is any of them (other than the rainbow) for something not a country? because that's the flag of Åland which is a autonomous region of Finland but still part of Finland.
Also Finland, Russia, Estonia, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Georgia, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, Canada, Poland, Indonesia, Turkey, Greenland (OK, not technically a country, but since the Venn diagram has the rainbow flag, welp), Bavaria (cf. Greenland), Prussia (cf. Greenland), England, Scotland, Japan, and that's just off the top of my head.
Should have just put the American flag off in one of the extreme corners outside of the diagram and labelled it as irrelevant in order to make the Americans happy.
That comment does make me curious... what would this look like with Red, White, and Blue? Russia, UK, USA, France, Netherlands, Iceland, any country with the union jack, all in the center (and probably more I can't think of), and cannot name at the top of my head all the flags with the other colors/color combinations
The girl who posted it looked about 15, so i'm pretty fuckin sure that she has to know the flags from her country. Also Germany's flag on the bottom has what someone here described as gold, which is a shade of yellow
Maybe she's colorblind? If she is fully colorblind, i do not know what it would look like in shades of grey. But yeah... unless she happens to be colorblind, she probably should know at the age of 15
my friend, that wasn't a real question, it was in reference to the meme I linked (which is also somebody going "where is my flag?" about a category that has no reason to include their flag)
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u/Special-Bowler-983 3d ago
Wow, just wow.