New on KNME.org (October 20): America Dreaming (Episode 1)
New this week on KNME.org is KNME filmmaker Kelly Kowalski's pilot of a potential new online series, America Dreaming. America Dreaming profiles todayʼs American dreams -- a mosaic that has become perhaps more fluid, more virtual, more idiosyncratic, more hopeful, more disenchanted, more global, more simple or more complex in perspective.
In this episodes, elementary students in the United States perform below average on international math scores, and high school students are failing. Our math textbooks typically deal with 35 topics, whereas math books of our successful competitors, like Germany and Japan, have a mere five or six. Experts believe we are forcing our kids to be shallow -- cramming in too much, and teaching students to do math but not insightfully use math? This America Dreaming webisode features a math teacher trying to teach differently, and possibly dream America differently.
America Dreaming (Episode 1)
In this episodes, elementary students in the United States perform below average on international math scores, and high school students are failing. Our math textbooks typically deal with 35 topics, whereas math books of our successful competitors, like Germany and Japan, have a mere five or six. Experts believe we are forcing our kids to be shallow -- cramming in too much, and teaching students to do math but not insightfully use math? This America Dreaming webisode features a math teacher trying to teach differently, and possibly dream America differently.
America Dreaming (Episode 1)
Labels: academic failure, America Dreaming, education, education statistics, Elementary Schools, Kelly Kowalski, Math, Math Scores, math tests, New Mexico, teachers, test results, tests
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