For $99 a month, your kid can have as many 45 minute sessions as they can schedule.

These students are under tremendous pressure to be the best. It’s not enough to get into a university–it has to be a top tier university: Cal, Stanford, Harvard, Brown. Mom and Dad are high-achievers themselves, with Dad often a partner in a law fir….

Here is an article from Fall 2006 from Hoover Institution about it: http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3853357.html

Fall 2007 update: Many schools in Montgomery County, MD drop Singapore Math because it is TOO HARD FOR MANY TEACHERS and liberals were annoyed that it was actually successful–embarrassing socialists and other liberals advocating fuzzy math.

For parents out there, I’d have to Google them to find them, but there are programs on-line where you can get math tutoring from someone in India, Singapore or Korea I believe. Probably worth the money.

No, but the main function of public schools in the 21st century is cheap day care. You start reducing the hours, and the parents who expect the village to raise their kids are gonna revolt.

Also, do kids really need 8 hours a day in school to learn what they need to know? Surely it doesn’t take that long. I’m willing to bet that theres a ton of busywork that could be eliminated. there certainly was enough when i was in public school.

Yet another reason to homeschool.

oh, and excuse the typos and non-capitalization. I’m typing with my 6 week old daughter in one arm!

With Evolution a theory becoming law de facto in our schools and all other thought crushed, with children unable to voice an opinion, with no one truth allowed in all things, is it really the education at fault? Or is it the state of the Society itself? Loyalty, sacrifice, Justice, have they given way to greed, selfishness, and gaining ground for ones self?

The current state of our educational system and society are coterminous. One ought to look no further than the debacle in Portland, Maine. A school in Portland is intending to distribute birth control to 11 year olds. 11 year olds!
Why? Because society tells us that you can’t keep kids from having sex (they are having sex!). Nevermind there are kids who aren’t sexually active, ignore the statistics showing that abstinence works and whatever you do, don’t inform parents that their child is taking birth control…it’s none of their business. Shhh

I’m just going to come right out and say it – God is what is missing from our society, our educational system, etc… We constantly hear about how much more money we need to pour into failing public schools. We never hear about those children who are in parochial schools. We don’t want to shine a light on what works and use that as an example. God is missing, and, well – it shows.

OT—Since this thread is about the dumbing down of education, the US military isn’t immune to it either.

Navy basic training; the recruits are no longer drilling with weapons (learning the manual of arms), each division has their own mess hall, and the Company Commanders can no longer drop them for push-ups when needed. The only time they can be dropped is back in their barracks and even then under very stringient conditions.

The fleet started seeing the quality of the recruits coming out, and saw that they knew all about their rights-but not much in the way of professional discipline and respect for those above. Even if their superior was a PO1 (E-6) with 19 years of Naval service. The Navy is responsible for teaching the recruits that all blue shirts are equal and the diffrence in respect begins at CPO-it was one of the reasons why I dropped my retirement papers in 2005 rather than go up for CPO.
Enough of the rant

GSP

The David Lynch Foundation has introduced TM to schools in the U.S., where the 61-year-old filmmaker claims it has transformed results and behavior.

What a coincidence.