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- From: slambert@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
- Newsgroups: ca.general
- Subject: Re: California Public Schools Funding: A Masterplan for Failure
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:13:38 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- genzuk@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Genzuk) writes:
- > We need schools that deal
- > fully with issues of diversity; schools that look frankly at matters of
- > prejudice and equity; schools that support, celebrate, and integrate the
- > cultures, languages, and backgrounds of their students; schools that
- > incorporate the curriculum and the teaching strategies appropriate to the vast
- > range of learning styles, cultures and needs that are found in our
- > multiethnic, multiracial society.
- > ...
- > The bottom line is that if we don't prepare our students for the 21st
- > century and the global marketplace, we will descend into mediocrity.
- > We can make a difference, it won't be cheap, but we can make a difference.
-
- I agree that integrating cultural diversity into public education is important,
- but there is a severe lack of funds for other subjects besides cultural such
- as MATH and SCIENCE. The above excerpts say nothing about them. Math and
- science are inherently expensive subjects to teach. They are materials
- intensive (computers, books, lab equipment, etc.). Math and sciences are
- equally important in "prepar[ing] our students for the 21st century and the
- global marketplace."
-
- Ignorance of the world around us is just as bad as ignorance of the people
- around us.
-
- Flames encouraged,
- Steve
-
-
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