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  beatit05

  March 3, 2008, 6:54 p.m.

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  Isoparm

  March 3, 2008, 9 p.m.

  With the increasing complexity of issues in our world today, it is more important than ever that our citizens have at least a basic understanding of our dynamical world. People need to understand that the universe does not care about our politics, or our labels. It abides by its own rules. We must learn them.

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  chayanat

  March 4, 2008, 6:45 a.m.

  Thnaks for the story.

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  nostalgia

  March 4, 2008, 7:19 a.m.

  Although almost all US teachers hold at least basic qualifications - a bachelor's degree and teaching certification - many are teaching subjects for which they lack adequate academic training, certification, or both. This mismatch, commonly termed out-of-field teaching, has been a major policy concern. Most of these teachers are found teaching math and science

  A study in 2002: Math teachers - 1/5 were either not fully certified or certified in a field other than mathematics. Certification rates of mathematics and science teachers declined from 1990 to 2002. This downward trend has continued

  Declines also occurred among biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science teachers.

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    mishandled

    March 4, 2008, 9:26 a.m.

    Agreed 100%. I work in a science and technology museum in NYC for the education department's professional development section, seen the ineptitude first hand. Amazingly frightening when a fourth grade general education teacher is forced to become the science teacher for an entire middle school and asks me to explain the periodic table and has absolutely no clue as to what a valence electron is.

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    rwrnae

    March 4, 2008, 9:59 a.m.

    When my daughter was a sophomore in high school, the school offered a day for the parents to go to class in place of their kids. I went and was shocked. Her biology teacher had constructed a model of an atom for the class, incorrectly. Her geometry teacher said this was the day the class normally had a quiz, so she passed one out, more to impress the parents than anything else I think. I handed it back in 10 minutes with all the answers correct. She was shocked, she said how do you remember this stuff? I said I use it every day in my work. She had no comprehension that this stuff was actually usefull and she had been teaching for 30 years. The next day I pulled my kids out of the local school and spent the next several years hauling them 60 miles every day to a private school in a neighboring city. It was worth it. Our schools suck and the NEA can take a large portion of the blame, but so can the parents.

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