Comments on: I think perhaps we should stop referring to these places as schools https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 15 May 2023 15:17:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Occasional Commenter https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679759 Mon, 15 May 2023 15:17:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679759 The teachers figured out that with “equitable grading” they could do less real work.

]]> By: Wendy Laubach https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679757 Mon, 15 May 2023 14:32:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679757 When I mentioned taking tests repeatedly, I was thinking of subject-matter tests, not aptitude tests like the SAT. I don’t mind kids re-taking the test, but their various scores should be averaged.

I do think there’s something to SAT prep. I never did a formal prep class, but a friend and I used to take practice tests. It improved my vocabulary enormously, and there is a certain practice effect from increasing familiarity with the usual question format. Since practice can speed up response, it can perhaps increase a score by giving a student time to get all the way through the questions. But anyone can get practice tests. Practice tests don’t take money or influence, only motivation.

]]> By: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup - Pirate's Cove » Pirate's Cove https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679664 Sun, 14 May 2023 13:18:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679664 […] neo-neocon says we shouldn’t call schools schools anymore […]

]]> By: Mike K https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679504 Sat, 13 May 2023 15:49:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679504 “Hand writing” was called “Penmanship.” That was the 40s and 50s. One report care had a “-” as my grade in penmanship. I guess I was destined for medical school. South Shore was a lovely area when I was a kid. Now, driving through is dangerous.

This was South Shore when I was growing up.

]]> By: Ray https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679501 Sat, 13 May 2023 15:22:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679501 Forgot the link. I’m old and my memory isn’t what it used to be. Go here.
https://gss.norc.org/

]]> By: Ray https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679498 Sat, 13 May 2023 14:46:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679498 @ Art Deco,
The evidence for this decline are data from the “General Social Survey” on mean IQ by decade among graduate students, undergraduates, and high school students. The IQ scores have been declining for years.

]]> By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679496 Sat, 13 May 2023 14:27:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679496 Wasn’t this covered in Calvin and Hobbes 40 years ago?

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679494 Sat, 13 May 2023 13:15:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679494 thats would they used to say about my handwriting, but it was shorthand,

looking at samples of what i’ve seen students turn in, to which the pen is a foreign instrument, it looks like sanskrit or some other dead language,

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679491 Sat, 13 May 2023 12:12:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679491 I got terrible grades in hand writing
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They have courses in pharmacy school to deal with you lot.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/05/12/i-think-perhaps-we-should-stop-referring-to-these-places-as-schools/#comment-2679490 Sat, 13 May 2023 12:08:25 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=125746#comment-2679490 As I have pointed out before, the average score on student’s IQ test has been declining for 50 years.
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Sez who?

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