Both agreed that testing results reflect reading levels in elementary grades, but Sizer questioned further uses of tests. Telling reporters that they haven't asked what tests suggest about students, he gave his strong opinion: "They correlate with rich parents and not much else. We have to stop equating serious education with test scores."
These are 2 different theories about school one (Sizer) that is teaching you how to think better and ask good questions, the other (Hirsch) is asking to memorize stuff! In my own experience I wont through both of these theories since I went to 2 different school during high school, and I think both of them has some good stuff and some bad stuff, the good think about memorizing stuff is you know a lot of information in your head that is important, as Hirsch says "Students should be able to read and know basic number facts by the end of the first grade". But the bad think is that it doesn’t teach how to think of things better and develop new ideas which is important!
The other theory (Sizer) helps me to think better and ask better question. And its good because it helps you to think better of everything. But the thing that I don’t like that its more focusing on teaching on how you need to think and it doesn’t give you this much of information of stuff around the world.
But if I was to pick which one is better.I think Sizer is better because in my own experience, when I first got here to America coming from school that teaches Hirsch’s way and went to a school that teach in a Sizer way, the school in the U.S (Sizer way) helped me to learn English in a year because its talking and thinking. As Sizer states, “Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.” This is why I was able to develop the language faster more than if it was focusing on memorizing stuff.
Monday, March 22, 2010
H.W # 44
in Obamas article its saying that school is to give students education and help them to understand stuff better and get them ready for college! and that everyone should work hard because there having all the money and stuff and that he didnt get and of those when he was a student and that his mom used to wake him up early to teach him showing that he worked so hard!
in the other article they didnt focus on what school for or anything they basically were talking about teachers and how they sould love there jobs because there teaching kids and developing new thoughts ad new future!
in my p.o.v i think that we need to work hard because student in the U.S have all the resources and they should take advantage of that to succeed because other student in other countries are not having what student in the U.S students having and there doing better in some areas! what i think school for, is to give us the education and let us know what going around in the world so we understand everything and that we can think of new stuff so in the future we can develop new stuff that effects better on the world!
in the other article they didnt focus on what school for or anything they basically were talking about teachers and how they sould love there jobs because there teaching kids and developing new thoughts ad new future!
in my p.o.v i think that we need to work hard because student in the U.S have all the resources and they should take advantage of that to succeed because other student in other countries are not having what student in the U.S students having and there doing better in some areas! what i think school for, is to give us the education and let us know what going around in the world so we understand everything and that we can think of new stuff so in the future we can develop new stuff that effects better on the world!
Monday, March 1, 2010
H.W #42
PART A
n this web site it says that “the study’s says says that single sex school doesn’t really matter on the pupils exam results, but it also says in single class school girls do better in chemistry and physics while boys do better in A English and male-dominated subjects”
This site also says that some parents prefer there daughters to be in single sex school because they think that when boys are not in class girls pay attention more and do better! But the number of girls that do better is higher than boys even in mixed school!
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Research/ressinglesex.html
this site is saying ” that single sex class may have positive effects on girls” so its agree-ing that single sex class room are better for girls! In my point f view boys most of the time be trying to act like there 2 cool to do homework so they don’t do good even if there is no girls in class!
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1501861
part-b
Do boys/girls do better in single sex school or mixed schools?
I wanted to write about this topic (how single sex classroom are better) because I used to go to a single sex middle school and 2 years for high school, then in my third year of high school I moved to the .U.S and went to a mixed high school.
So I had some experiences about it and how it feels and if its better single sex school or mixed?!
this question is important for people to know because if it does really make a diffrent for student when it be single sex in class rooms and on there grades! then we would make more single sex school to make student gets better and think better and this way we have a better future for evryone!but if it doesnt really matter then we wont be worried if we have mixed schools!
n this web site it says that “the study’s says says that single sex school doesn’t really matter on the pupils exam results, but it also says in single class school girls do better in chemistry and physics while boys do better in A English and male-dominated subjects”
This site also says that some parents prefer there daughters to be in single sex school because they think that when boys are not in class girls pay attention more and do better! But the number of girls that do better is higher than boys even in mixed school!
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Research/ressinglesex.html
this site is saying ” that single sex class may have positive effects on girls” so its agree-ing that single sex class room are better for girls! In my point f view boys most of the time be trying to act like there 2 cool to do homework so they don’t do good even if there is no girls in class!
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1501861
part-b
Do boys/girls do better in single sex school or mixed schools?
I wanted to write about this topic (how single sex classroom are better) because I used to go to a single sex middle school and 2 years for high school, then in my third year of high school I moved to the .U.S and went to a mixed high school.
So I had some experiences about it and how it feels and if its better single sex school or mixed?!
this question is important for people to know because if it does really make a diffrent for student when it be single sex in class rooms and on there grades! then we would make more single sex school to make student gets better and think better and this way we have a better future for evryone!but if it doesnt really matter then we wont be worried if we have mixed schools!
h.w # 41
in this web cite, its telling us that single sex class’s are better than mix ones because they be mixed girls are not assertive about there education if boys are in class room! And that teacher give more time for boys to answer a question more than they give to girls!
This quote on the cite shows the most of what I am talking about!
“Research has shown for a long time that girls are not assertive about their education if boys are in the classroom. Girls also receive less attention from teachers. Studies have shown that teachers wait longer for boys to give an answer than girls.”
http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/single_sex_classrooms
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this cite tells us that when the class be mixed (boys, girls) each sex be shy in front of the other on doing some stuff in class, and boys behavior be different when girls be around, so its basically not agreeing on having kids of different sex in the same class!
http://www.springerlink.com/content/vp6k47wt30502030/
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Single sex classrooms effects better on both (boy, girls), and it also says that girls are more successful than boys in school and state of South Carolina is determined to offer a single-sex classroom experience to all middle school students within the next few years.
And I like those points they have on the cite
Whats good about single sex classrooms
* Teachers can spend extra time with topics that boys or girls may struggle with.
* Classes can be differentiated by gender.
* Students may branch out and try new things without the other gender to impress.
* Discipline problems decrease
* Academic achievement increases
* It is inexpensive. Separating the two genders does not require changing walls or hiring more teachers.
What’s not good about single sex classrooms!
* Social skills between genders get put on hold.
* Not all studies show academic improvement.
* Some feel it is discrimination. The ACLU believes that boys do not learn differently than girls and can lead to unequal education.
* This theory has not stood the test of time.
And as we can see the good stuff are more than the bad ones! S I guess single sex classrooms are better than mixed ones!
http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/pros_and_cons_of_samesex_classrooms
This quote on the cite shows the most of what I am talking about!
“Research has shown for a long time that girls are not assertive about their education if boys are in the classroom. Girls also receive less attention from teachers. Studies have shown that teachers wait longer for boys to give an answer than girls.”
http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/single_sex_classrooms
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this cite tells us that when the class be mixed (boys, girls) each sex be shy in front of the other on doing some stuff in class, and boys behavior be different when girls be around, so its basically not agreeing on having kids of different sex in the same class!
http://www.springerlink.com/content/vp6k47wt30502030/
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Single sex classrooms effects better on both (boy, girls), and it also says that girls are more successful than boys in school and state of South Carolina is determined to offer a single-sex classroom experience to all middle school students within the next few years.
And I like those points they have on the cite
Whats good about single sex classrooms
* Teachers can spend extra time with topics that boys or girls may struggle with.
* Classes can be differentiated by gender.
* Students may branch out and try new things without the other gender to impress.
* Discipline problems decrease
* Academic achievement increases
* It is inexpensive. Separating the two genders does not require changing walls or hiring more teachers.
What’s not good about single sex classrooms!
* Social skills between genders get put on hold.
* Not all studies show academic improvement.
* Some feel it is discrimination. The ACLU believes that boys do not learn differently than girls and can lead to unequal education.
* This theory has not stood the test of time.
And as we can see the good stuff are more than the bad ones! S I guess single sex classrooms are better than mixed ones!
http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/pros_and_cons_of_samesex_classrooms
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