Dept. of Our Collapsing Schools
Connie du Toit has an excellent post up on the state of education in this country – the difference between learning versus memorizing, and much, much more.
I forwarded it to my sister, who is a math and science teacher, for comment.
If you have children, you need to read this. If you don’t, you need to read it to understand why we’re graduating people who are essentially illiterate ignorants.