So, the teachers union wants to eliminate basic skills testing for aspiring teachers? It’s a given that math teachers should know something about math but to say that they do not have to know anything but math is ridiculous. https://youtube.com/shorts/X0Sx2bYLM2g?si=fw6-uYISTKGR5fSL
Let’s hear it for the department of education. “The Program for International Student Assessment is administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and it tests 15-year-old students around the world. The U.S. placed 11th out of 79 countries in science when the test was last administered in 2018. It did much worse in math, ranking 30th.1 The U.S. scored 478 in math, below the OECD average of 489. That's well below the scores of the top five, all of which were in Asia:…” https://www.thebalancemoney.com/the-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-advantage-3306225
The education here in the D.R. are teaching global warming I tell my children to correct the teacher but the programing of schools are working berceuse they will not correct the teacher. We live on an island surrounded by water on premise of global warming is sea rise. The ocean has not risen any faster than it has in the last thousand years. A walk to the beach will show you.
Restricting expression of thought is classically tyrannical. I remember an interesting incident when I was working at the NIH. I went down to talk with another researcher in a lab downstairs. She had two, female Chinese post-docs working with her through the Fogarty Center for visiting scientists. Now, bear in mind this was back in the 80s so much might have changed since. Anyway, when I walked in, she (the P.I.) was giving the two of them a pretty hot and heavy dressing down about something, first time I had seen her that angry. Later, when we were talking in her office, she commented on how frustrated she was getting. Apparently these two had both done experiments that had produced considerably different results than expected. Instead of evaluating the results and trying to understand them, these two Chinese post docs instead were doing everything possible to explain them away or deny them, doing other stuff to try to “make it go away”. The P.I. got really angry with them for not pursuing the evidence. They explained to her that it was improper to embarrass the senior investigators, to cause him to lose face and they should never challenge him. That was where she kind of lost it, almost yelling at them that the whole purpose of who and what they are is to challenge conventional thought. Anyway, always stuck in my mind.