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Why Our Schools Don’T Work and What You Can Do About It

Why Our Schools Don’T Work and What You Can Do About It Behavior and Social Issues, Volume 5, No.2, Fall 1995 WHY OUR SCHOOLS DON'T WORK AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT Guy BruCe Precision Learning Systems, Inc. Here are some facts from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey, as reported by Regna Wood in the October 18, 1993 issue of National Review: "Though most of the 180 million adults in this survey have attended school for 12 years, over 96% (174 million) can't read, write, and figure well enough to go to college; two thirds (120 million) do not have the 'literary proficiency' to go to high school; and nearly a fourth (40-44 million) can't read. Some can sign their names. A few have learned to fill in the height, weight, age, and birthdate blanks on forms. But they can't really read." Why can't our schools teach their students to read, write, and compute? Recently, I read two reviews of "Project Follow-Through," the world's largest and most expensive educational experiment. From 1968-1977, in an effort to discover more effective methods for teaching economically-disadvantaged children, the U.S. Office of Education spent one billion dollars to test the effects of 13 different models of education on the achievement scores of disadvantaged http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Behavior and Social Issues Springer Journals

Why Our Schools Don’T Work and What You Can Do About It

Bruce, Guy
Behavior and Social Issues , Volume 5 (2) – Oct 1, 1995
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Behavior and Social Issues, Volume 5, No.2, Fall 1995 WHY OUR SCHOOLS DON'T WORK AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT Guy BruCe Precision Learning Systems, Inc. Here are some facts from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey, as reported by Regna Wood in the October 18, 1993 issue of National Review: "Though most of the 180 million adults in this survey have attended school for 12 years, over 96% (174 million) can't read, write, and figure well enough to go to college; two thirds (120 million) do not have the 'literary proficiency' to go to high school; and nearly a fourth (40-44 million) can't read. Some can sign their names. A few have learned to fill in the height, weight, age, and birthdate blanks on forms. But they can't really read." Why can't our schools teach their students to read, write, and compute? Recently, I read two reviews of "Project Follow-Through," the world's largest and most expensive educational experiment. From 1968-1977, in an effort to discover more effective methods for teaching economically-disadvantaged children, the U.S. Office of Education spent one billion dollars to test the effects of 13 different models of education on the achievement scores of disadvantaged

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Behavior and Social Issues – Springer Journals

Published: Oct 1, 1995

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