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Home Schooling and Teaching Kids to Think
It often seems in the public school system that we are teaching children memorization rather than teaching them to think. Although a lot has been done to upgrade the public school system an insure that every kid gets the proper education, unfortunately the No Child Left Behind Act does not help teach kids to think all the time.
In fact it may do just the opposite. It may be teaching kids to answer a specific question to a specific problem and that would be memorization and not actually thinking. Although each kid would benefit from getting information and learning; there is a big difference between figuring out a problem and thinking and simply knowing the answer because you had memorized it.
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Education should be special for all
The effective use of “special” education for all children can eliminate the need for students or educational professionals to “swim against the mainstream” in order to find success in the education system, Mr. Thomas maintains.
THE SEPARATE field of special education needs to continue its evolution. No longer a completely distinct entity, special education should complete its dissolution and begin a total merger into what is now termed general education. Pete Idstein’s December Kappan article, “Swimming Against the Mainstream,” is an example of the systemic weaknesses that reflect the need to combine both general and special education into a more substantial system of education for all. Idstein’s examples of mismanagement and unequal use of instructional resources serve to point out the divisiveness caused by the artificial separation of the field of education.
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