the percentage of untimed test-taking is said to be close to 50percent.”
Insensitive to those with actual learning disabilities; how selfish it is to take advantage of something meant to assist those who are disadvantaged
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This was always the first and most basic problem with the GNP per capita paradigm of development. It neglects distribution, and can give high marks to nations or states that contain alarming inequalities.
This reminds me of JFK's "Peace Speech" when he talks about how the US is known as a global success for its economic power, but the country's expertise in production includes the manufacturing of the weapons that are used to take hundreds of thousands of human lives in war.
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in both primary/secondary and college/uni-versity education, in virtually every nation of the world.
The gifted classes I took in early elementary school gave us exercises involving creative thinking, like creating stories from an organic shape. It's sad that these classes now have been replaced with accelerated programs that practice advanced grammar and mathematics instead.
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You know, we don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the state...I want to spend our dollars giving people science, technology, engineering, math degrees. That’s what our kids need to focus all their time and attention on.
STEM is beginning to be called STEAM now, as a pursuit in the arts is encouraged since creativity has been found to have many positive effects on brain health.
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