Brutal Analysis by Grok Ah, the 2022 Marco Curricular de Matemáticas from Puerto Rico’s Departamento de Educación. A bureaucratic masterpiece that takes the noble subject of mathematics — the one discipline built on irrefutable logic, precise definitions, deductive proof, and universal abstraction — and buries it alive under a mountain of mandated …
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The Thoughts of Chairman Grok
The Puerto Rico Mathematics Curriculum Framework Unidad 1: Fundamentos de Geometría
Read More »ESSA and the Vanishing Puerto Rico Content Standards
After multiple decades of following failed education philosophies which have reduced literacy rates, increased learning “disabilities”, produced a highly disaffected student body, and fragmented families, Puerto Rico has agreed (been bribed) into ceding total control of its education system to the US federal government by adopting the controversial “Every Student …
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Dr. Duke Pesta on the Dangers of Government Schools
Abu María y Abu Pepe en la UPR
FUENTE: Fieles a la Verdad Imagina a tus abuelos o bisabuelos—llamémosles Abu María y Abu Pepe—de regreso en la tierra por unas horas. Visitan la UPR-RP para sorprenderte y, como solían hacerlo, para echarte la bendición. Luego de sobreponerse a la impresión de que, en vez de en el Primer …
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¿No es el Anteproyecto de Un nuevo bachillerato para el año 2000, desde su mismo título, una especie de utopía defectuosa, un desgarrado esfuerzo totalizador de propuestas educativas que tienen, como mal de fondo, la ingenua pretensión de contenerlo todo; un modelo ecléctico que pretende reunir los fetiches ideológico-educativos del …
Read More »Like Obamacare, Obama Core Is Another Power Grab
It's well-known that public schools are not graduating students as well-educated as before, that Americans score poorly on international tests, and that billions of federal dollars showered on public schools have not achieved any of the designated goals, which were to raise test scores and to eliminate the gap between higher income and lower income students. The Obama progressives want us to believe that the remedy is to turn over total control to the federal government.
Read More »Primer día de clases en la UPR
Apenas son las Octavitas. Pero hoy, jueves 10 de enero, te aprestas a acudir a tu primer día de clases en el Principal Centro Docente del País. Los martes y jueves son tus días más pesados: de 8:30am a 2:20pm, sin receso. Mochila a cuestas te apresuras para sentarte en …
Read More »Professing at the podium
By: Alma Acevedo Source: Mercatornet The problem with some professors is that they only seem to know one thing: problems. A modern philosophy professor zigzags during the eighty minutes lecture between derisively questioning the term “truth” and passionately recycling the usual departmental politics. A doctor of ethics categorically concludes that …
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