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Friday, August 30, 2013

IF IT'S A NO-BRAINER THAN IT INVOLVES OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM



Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys Luisa D'Amato's Opinion article titled "Province needs to take action to boost math skills". Her final two sentences in her article are "Let's stop wasting time, and start a pilot project that hires specialists to teach math in elementary school. It's what you might call a no-brainer.".

Interestingly and in line with a story in yesterday's Record titled "Students lag in math"; today's story quotes Wilfred Laurier University math professor David Vaughn namely "...the numeracy skills of incoming first-year students are getting worse- even if the students got good marks in high school.". Well dosen't that just tell the tale of our public school board/teachers union fiasco. Apparently school boards are big on hiring general arts grads out of university because they think they will make good teachers. Maybe they might for general arts courses but obviously not so hot for maths and perhaps not even for sciences. God help our brain trusts at the school boards. Obviously the provincial education ministry also hasn't figured out the problem yet.
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