minimum wage here in the uk is £5.35 an hour, yes and thats for all workers, over $10 an hour per person..
i lived through the changes here, every year we had a new way of examination, you didnt know what you were going to study that year, as it would all be changed, and its happened every year since the early 80's.
but there has been a change in the way kids are being taught, and not for the best. i can only speak for the UK,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/10/nhistory110.xml
History teaching at A-level is so fragmented and useless that it produces "nothing but elaborately polished mediocrity" among students, claims one of the country's most eminent academics.
Despair: Dr David Starkey
David Starkey, the television historian and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, said events were often taught in isolation leaving pupils with no understanding of the order in which they occurred and little idea of what went on before or after.
He said: "There is no point in doing merely a fragment in time with no sense of what might have led up to events and what consequences flowed from them. At the moment, pupils study a bit of American history and a bit of Hitler. That's almost useless."
It was absurd that the main history syllabus covering Hitler stopped in 1939, he said. "There is no Second World War and no Holocaust.
He was speaking before the premiere this week of the film The History Boys. This depicts the clash between two teachers, one who values learning for its own sake and one who sees teaching as a means to passing exams.
It is a debate he believes is worth having as he fears that highly prescriptive curriculums, combined with a fear in schools of failing in the league tables, had produced "nothing but elaborately polished mediocrity" among students, who were coached to pass exams, but not to understand their subjects
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thats what i see happening all over, its not about teaching anymore its about passing exams, now parents have an excuse if their kids are dumb or fail, they suffer from autism, add, adhd, etc etcetc..its just an excuse for a majority, (a reason for a minority) but as has been seen boys who are being taught differently than they were, are more and more acting out.. why..
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