What is wrong with the US education system?

[David Hayden]

(10-25-2014 09:55 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  Personally, I'd like to see a return to the old "readin, writin, and rithmetic," but that is not likely to happen in this complex world of today.

It seems that someone always wants to add One More Thing to the curriculum. I think an important question to ask whenever someone suggests adding "just an hour" of instruction on the very important topic of tea cultivation in ancient Greece or whatever, is "what should we remove to make room for it?" This forces us to consider what is more important.