Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional

Re:Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test ... by epgui on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:18PM (#29652246)

I will agree with you that the manner in which we teach science has a lot of room for improvement, but in the aggregate, despite all the failings of the education system, I maintain that what I said is true.

The effectiveness of STEM education is certainly held back by the difficulties in keeping students engaged and interested, and in the failings of the educators themselves. I would suggest that raising the bar for educators (assuming supply wasn't an issue, which I recognize it is) would go a long way towards teaching STEM better, and augmenting its impact on students' lives.

Edit: I did learn about epistemology in school, but coverage was rather superficial and incomplete. I suspect people's experiences vary wildly.

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Re:Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test ... by beaconstudios on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:25PM (#29652346)

I just don't see it when it comes to science education. If we were talking about teaching students critical thinking and reasoning skills then I'd be 100% on board with that because that's a directly-useful skill (and one I should've probably included on the list of pragmatic skills). But learning those skills by proxy of science would be extremely roundabout, and definitely isn't what's happening right now.

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