http://rightwingnation.com/2008/12/02/paging-aristotle/ A little sanity in an insane blogosphere Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:35:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://rightwingnation.com/2008/12/02/paging-aristotle/#comment-124379 skh.pcola Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:07:01 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2008/12/02/paging-aristotle/#comment-124379 RWProf, have you ever seen the KADD add-in for Excel? It makes quite a few statistics calcs much simpler. RWProf, have you ever seen the KADD add-in for Excel? It makes quite a few statistics calcs much simpler.

]]> http://rightwingnation.com/2008/12/02/paging-aristotle/#comment-124374 PeggyU Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:59:15 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2008/12/02/paging-aristotle/#comment-124374 I am homeschooling my boys ... sort of. They are taking online classes from a public school that has a curriculum which seems to be more rigorous than the one at our local school. However, it still seems as though a lot of time and energy is devoted to non-core subjects. I have a friend who is Chinese and I was telling her how exhausting it is to try to keep the boys caught up witn the volume of work. In my view, life would be a lot simpler if they just could focus on math and language skills and let everything else sort itself out. It seems to me that having a solid base in those areas is what should constitute a basic education. Everything else is just icing. My friend said that was basically how they did things in elementary grades in China, and that the other subjects were largely postponed until later grades. I'm not a huge fan of things Chinese, but I am wondering if their approach in early grades might explain some of their apparent academic edge. What do you think? I am homeschooling my boys … sort of. They are taking online classes from a public school that has a curriculum which seems to be more rigorous than the one at our local school. However, it still seems as though a lot of time and energy is devoted to non-core subjects. I have a friend who is Chinese and I was telling her how exhausting it is to try to keep the boys caught up witn the volume of work. In my view, life would be a lot simpler if they just could focus on math and language skills and let everything else sort itself out. It seems to me that having a solid base in those areas is what should constitute a basic education. Everything else is just icing. My friend said that was basically how they did things in elementary grades in China, and that the other subjects were largely postponed until later grades. I’m not a huge fan of things Chinese, but I am wondering if their approach in early grades might explain some of their apparent academic edge. What do you think?

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