@Everybody, is this true? Is everyone in agreement that I have completely failed to answer shockthemonkey's question?Your answer was pretty funny, but you never said what qualifies someone as an expert. You just listed a bunch of unrelated people you admire.
Your answer was pretty funny, but you never said what qualifies someone as an expert. You just listed a bunch of unrelated people you admire.
Because I feel some people do argue that the existence of advanced courses and advanced tracks necessarily harms those not in such courses. And I fundamentally disagree with that premise.
If you're going to have advanced courses and be a proponent for advanced courses, you should make sure your non advanced courses also have high quality. But I mean, having advanced courses that have higher amount of resources will probably mean less resources for non advanced classes. Especially since financial and labor resources can be fixed costs.
How much is that delta going to be though, and how accessible do we make it for non advanced course students to enter advanced courses
To say advanced courses harm non-advanced courses in any way is false. Limited resources harm both, so the solution is better and more resources, not even entertaining the idea of dissolving advanced courses IMO.
In short, the folks who push for anything that might result in the removal of calculus, even if that's not their explicit intent. Are doing a clear disservice, and IMO are clearly wrong.
You can't copy/paste anything from that website, which is fucking bullshit >_>Wow, I for one am SHOCKED that people are intentionally misconstruing and misrepresenting a new policy change in an attempt to bemoan and malign the education system
As a hs math teacher, tracking is a bad practice and needs to be phased out if we ever want to be at the top of mathematics education.
At least I can still screencap. Here's the Dr. mentioned in the article defending his position in the comments. I agree 100%
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/8/9/AAaVCFAADYNV.png
You seem to confuse positions of authority with expertise. Do you truly believe just because somebody got themselves into a position of power they are necessarily knowledgeable?
There's countless experts in every field who are far smarter than me in that field or in general.
Adam Savage, Quinton Tarantino, Penn and Teller, John McWhorter, Dave Filoni, Vince Gilligan, almost all career musicians, I mean I can list names of experts all day but I doubt you'll concede anything.
Students on low tracks are substantially more likely to stay on those low tracks and never get high quality math education.
Yep. Tracking seems like a bad thing since it essentially picks out kids at a young age and starts them in that track. If you're weren't lucky enough to be chosen early on in your schooling, you're kinda out of luck .
Is that correct?
I don't go to the doctor and tell him I know more about medicine than him
With track systems can't you track up or track down depending on how well you do? I thought the whole point was that if you got put in a normal track and aced it you could bump up to the more difficult track and vice versa.You can, yeah. I did grade 9 in the university track (they told me to do the CC track but I ignored them), 10 and 11 in the CC track and then 12 in the uni track again. But not a lot of students really seemed to even bother with that.
With track systems can't you track up or track down depending on how well you do? I thought the whole point was that if you got put in a normal track and aced it you could bump up to the more difficult track and vice versa.As I've previously said, upward mobility between tracks is seldom accessible, especially to marginalized groups, and does more to hinder student self esteem than incentivize moving up.
As I've previously said, upward mobility between tracks is seldom accessible, especially to marginalized groups, and does more to hinder student self esteem than incentivize moving up.But as long as the top performs do well... that's all that matters to some people
As I've previously said, upward mobility between tracks is seldom accessible, especially to marginalized groups, and does more to hinder student self esteem than incentivize moving up.
But as long as the top performs do well... that's all that matters to some people