Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

  • thedevisinthedetails@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Wow whole bunch of old man takes about computers and not a single one about public schools being systematically defunded, dismantled, and squeezed in every way possible.

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      1 year ago

      I worked as a teacher for a while until quite recently.

      99% of public discourse on education, is based on the (traumatic or positive) individual experiences of people who went to school years if not decades ago, not people who actually know much about what they’re talking about.

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        1 year ago

        But what about the LGBT agenda that’s replacing math and reading education where children learn how to vote Democrat instead of learning how to read or multiply? /S

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    9 months ago

    It’s not the first time I read something like this. But it’s not always because of COVID, school closures and so on.
    A lot of things depend on a student, and if they are not interested in education and do just the minimum, of course, such skills like reading, writing, math, and so on will become worse and worse. I’m at university now, and my brother is at school. His skills and knowledge at that age are worse than mine. And I don’t know why it is so, but you know, if he doesn’t know how to do tasks, he just skips them, and teachers are quite okay with that. But I can’t do it. When I can’t finish something, I’ll do my best to do it. The hardest thing for me is writing something, but I look for examples, tips, and so on. Yesterday, I was working on my paper, and this site https://gradesfixer.com/essay-types/process-analysis-essays/ helped me out because I was stuck. That paper type is not that hard, but I had no idea what to write. I found some useful resources, and these examples helped me out.