Monday, January 4, 2010

EducationNews.org - A Leading Global News Source - Education: A Debate over Dumbing Down


EducationNews.org - A Leading Global News Source - Education: A Debate over Dumbing Down:

"Question: What article is being manufactured in the above passage? Too hard? Try these selections, then. What stage of a frog's development is being described in the following excerpt: 'A new frog is like a fish. He must stay in the water.

Education: A Debate over Dumbing Down

Textbooks, using formulas for simplicity, produce perplexity

Tap, tap, tap. See me work. I make I good things. See the red ones. See the blue ones. See the yellow ones. No, no, no. I do not want red ones. I do not want blue ones. I want green ones.'

Question: What article is being manufactured in the above passage? Too hard? Try these selections, then. What stage of a frog's development is being described in the following excerpt: 'A new frog is like a fish. He must stay in the water. You may have seen a little frog as he hopped out of the water. Then you may have seen him hop back in again.' In American history, how true is it to say that former President Richard M. Nixon became enmeshed in Watergate because 'he tried to help his friends'?"