Re: [MBZ] Britain mimicking America, (or America mimicking Britain?)

2014-04-04 Thread arche...@embarqmail.com
No, I didn't write that. My kids went to school beginning in '61 and '64. Daughter had one seemingly poor teacher in grade school who said she would not pass to the next grade "2 weeks" before the end of the school year. Daughter and I sat on the couch those two weeks while I helped her lear

Re: [MBZ] Britain mimicking America, (or America mimicking Britain?)

2014-04-03 Thread Mountain Man
Gerry wrote: > ...crusade > to churn out a new generation of school-leavers drilled by soulless, > dumbed-down and part-privatized education. So who is the leader here? Common Core UK style? or Common Core USA-Duncan style? Duncan is another protege of good looking Dem Daily-machine politics that

[MBZ] Britain mimicking America, (or America mimicking Britain?)

2014-04-02 Thread arche...@embarqmail.com
Hey, Gove - leave them teachers alone! Back in the 1980s, Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in The Wall’ summed up the frustrations of a generation of young people in Thatcher’s Britain – bullied and fed through a mincer of rote-learning, millions were thrown on the scrapheap of the dole queue.