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Re:Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the... by cvsh on Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:35PM (#14999226)
>We're still over-emphasizing passing grades over effectively growing new American citizens...

2/3rds of state legislatures are actively hostile to basic tenets of science, let alone the government teaching "effective American citizenship".

We just recently legalized malpractice for financial advisors. The rules preventing them from screwing their clients out of their retirement savings were spun as hurting consumer choice. Imagine how it'd be spun if there was a movement for public schools to teach "effective citizenship".

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Re:Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the... by pizza on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:39AM (#15002857)
It would be nice if schools allocated more time for the young kids to get to share with teachers which topics that they wanted to know more about, just a block of unstructured time like the agoras of Ancient Greece. Just some form of rubric-free authentic curiosity-driven discourse, to break out of the teacher-student hierarchical relation a bit and to widen their understanding of learning, I suppose.
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Re:Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the... by gwenzek on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:12AM (#15002763)
> We just recently legalized malpractice for financial advisors.

Do you have reference?

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Re:Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the... by derivagral on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:09AM (#15008313)
Link[1] is from forbes, but you get the idea. Matt Levine mentioned it once or twice in his column a week or 3 ago.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiehopkins/2017/02/03/trump-s...

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