In a world where U.S. students are being left behind in important parts of
the global job market, is nostalgia really a good guiding principle for
education policy? Should we have kids walk two miles uphill both ways to
school?
The world is moving fast. There’s not much use for cursive
Pierre,
Precisely! Students in US public education do not learn to think and calculate
(on physical questions) *exclusively* in SI.
Their minds are handicapped by early submersion in units of measurement outside
the SI, and late, first exposure (if at all), to metric units of measurement.
I
Not true in physics classes, at least mine.
John Altounji
One size does not fit all.
Social promotion ruined Education.
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