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Response to “WHY I SUPPORT KEEPING NEW YORK STATE REGENTS EXAMINATIONS.” | Ed In The Apple

Response to “WHY I SUPPORT KEEPING NEW YORK STATE REGENTS EXAMINATIONS.”

RESPONSE TO “WHY I SUPPORT KEEPING NEW YORK STATE REGENTS EXAMINATIONS.”

      Marc Korashan

This is an important starting point for a discussion of the broader question, what does a high school diploma mean? What do we expect high school students to be able to do after they graduate; use algebra to solve problems, write a research paper on a topic of their choosing; read and analyze texts from a variety of literary forms; speak or read a foreign language; be able to participate knowledgeably in the political process, or some other skills related to the expectations of a twenty-first century workplace heavily dependent of computer skills.

The basic curriculum has not changed over the many years since I graduated from high school in 1968. The specific content, the range of historical events, the required readings in English, and the depth of scientific knowledge have changed, of course, but the overall shape of the curriculum hasn’t.

Do we spend time teaching students facts (that they are not terribly interested in) and how to answer multiple choice questions, or do we teach them to challenge their thinking, to research in depth to understand what history teaches us about the present and how to use mathematics to solve meaningful problems in their daily lives (not two trains colliding but the kind of math we encounter in the real world al “Freakonomics”?

I am a product (as is Ed) of a Regents oriented high school curriculum. In fact, I was told that anything less than a ninety on the Geometry regents would result in my failing the course regardless of the grades earned on tests and homework CONTINUE READING: Response to “WHY I SUPPORT KEEPING NEW YORK STATE REGENTS EXAMINATIONS.” | Ed In The Apple

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