[geeks] OLPCs for sale...

[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:17 PM, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
>> The local high school is so bad that they lost their accreditation
>> which means graduates would have trouble getting into college
>> even with a straight A average.
> 
> I'm personally not convinced that some of the tests they use are a  
> very good measure.
> 
> At some schools where their rating is stellar and the students all  
> make As, nearly all of them are historically ignorant, innumerate,  
> border line illiterate, and geographically lost.
> 
> Loss of accreditation these days could actually mean the school was  
> good.

Montessori and similar schools are very good, but tend to do poorly on
standardized testing, because they're not teaching the kids the ordained
test material ... they're teaching them how to think, how to learn, how
to be inventive and think outside the box.


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