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April 07, 2008
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Teaching competencies and globalization is not the proper focus of education. This narrow minded approach is similar to the No Child Left Behind teaching to the test mentality which has resulted in a precipitous decline in the abilities of our incoming students. Competency and knowledge of the world around us is a byproduct of an education, not the education itself.
Another problem with the proposed core is that it was crafted to fit cutsie acronyms rather than a sound academic foundation. Will we hire mimes to teach the non-verbal communication component of WOVEN? Dorothy Leland has tried to reassure us by emphasizing that the proposed models are preliminary and can be modified. However, no amount of tinkering with these flawed models is going to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. What is needed is an intelligent assessment of the current core, and no restrictions on what must be and what can not be discussed.
From a Physics Professor