Ian Johanson
Paul FairieA Brief History of Let’s Get Back to Teaching the Basics
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Eva Chanda@paulisci "fathering vice and immorality" LOL Texas is still like that, just using different words, like "gRo0mInG" #education #culturewars #history
Tom@paulisci _cursive_ in 2016?? That battle was long lost ma’am.
Samhain Night@paulisci The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Paranoid Factoid@paulisci What a fantastic thread!
UrbanEdm@paulisci I notice only one if these considers history to be a basic.
It's almost like all these "back to basics" types think you can teach reading and writing without anything to read or write about.
Joe Uchill@paulisci It shows my age, but the earliest moral panic for this I remember was teaching in Black vernacular English (then called "Ebonics").
Grandma Bates@paulisci It is telling that these folks focus on arithmetic and bristle at the idea of learning mathematics. Knowing how to add and multiply without exploring the implications lead to shallow understanding and short term retention. Independent thinking and complex ideas are the enemy.
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@paulisci meow.