High School Should Be Harder, Govs Say
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
By Eric Kelderman, Staff Writer, Stateline.org
A coalition of governors, business leaders and education experts laid out a plan to reform the nation's public high schools and raise the academic bar to meet the increasing demands of college and the workforce. The National Governors Association and Achieve, Inc. plan calls for states to require a high school curriculum with four years of English and a math curriculum that covers more advanced courses, give lower-performing students more academic support, and raise standards for teacher and principal training. States also should adopt common standards for measuring both high school and college graduation rates, and revamp state boards of education to oversee not just elementary and secondary education but also college.
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I wonder how many of these governors (or Oklahoma legislators) did well in all those higher math courses. If they even took the courses, I wonder how often they use that math.
Heck, I wonder how many could pass our state Algebra test.
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