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2009-12-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Detroit students score record low on national math test

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Posted by Beavis 2009-12-09 05:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Woo Woo! We're Number One. Deetroit! Deetroit!

Posted by SteveS 2009-12-09 10:57|| 2009-12-09 10:57|| Front Page Top

#2 First Chicago loses the Olympic bid to Rio and now the Academic Excellence title to Detroit? Something is wrong here...

Posted by Waldemar Gleamp1150 2009-12-09 11:47|| 2009-12-09 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice job NEA.

Let's throw more tax dollars at it.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-12-09 12:28|| 2009-12-09 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Must be something wrong with the test. Normalize the scores upward so nobody gets their self esteem damaged.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-12-09 12:36|| 2009-12-09 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 "The real fault lies squarely with leadership," he said. "It's not the kids' fault. There's nothing wrong with these kids' minds."

That fallacy is why the scores are so poor. You cannot teach kids unprepared to learn. A 12 year old from the ghetto, born to a young gang-banger, cannot see the need to know math beyond the street value of a kilo. Substitute Kandahar for Detroit and see if the approach would be different than throwing money at the problem as usual.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-12-09 12:59|| 2009-12-09 12:59|| Front Page Top

#6 If the leadership's hands are bound by Union Contracts which prevent firing of incompetant teachers, merit based pay, etc... then there isn't much that can be done and this will just throw money at the unions (in the form of smaller class size (read: more union membership fees)).

And of course having the kids (and their parents) unprepared to learn has a lot to do with it as well.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-12-09 14:50|| 2009-12-09 14:50|| Front Page Top

#7 It probably doesn't help the test scores when al the kids who actually care about Education moved away with their job-seeking parents.

Posted by Charles 2009-12-09 16:40|| 2009-12-09 16:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd be curious to know the lottery ticket sales rate in the area, in relation to math test scores.

I've always suspected that the lottery is simply a tax on people who are bad at math.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-12-09 18:10|| 2009-12-09 18:10|| Front Page Top

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