{"id":341322,"date":"2017-12-27T23:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/educational-rot-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2017-12-27T23:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:32:46","slug":"educational-rot-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/educational-rot-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Rot &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>My recent columns have focused on the extremely poor educational outcomes for black students. There\u2019s enough blame for all involved to have their fair share. That includes students who are hostile and alien to the educational process and have derelict, uninterested home environments. After all, if there is not someone in the home to ensure that a youngster does his homework, has wholesome meals, gets eight to 10 hours of sleep and behaves in school, educational dollars won\u2019t produce much.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another educational issue that\u2019s neither flattering nor comfortable to confront. That\u2019s the low academic quality of so many teachers. It\u2019s an issue that must be confronted and dealt with if we\u2019re to improve the quality of education. Most states require prospective teachers to pass a certification test. How about a sample of some of the test questions.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a question from a recent test given to college students in Michigan planning to become teachers: \u201cWhich of the following is largest? a. 1\/4, b. 3\/5, c. 1\/2, d. 9\/20.\u201d Another question: \u201cA town planning committee must decide how to use a 115-acre piece of land. The committee sets aside 20 acres of the land for watershed protection and an additional 37.4 acres for recreation. How much of the land is set aside for watershed protection and recreation? a. 43.15 acres, b. 54.6 acres, c. 57.4 acres, d. 60.4 acres\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y7mtpfhk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y7mtpfhk<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Arizona teacher certification test asks: \u201cJanet can type 250 words in 5 minutes, what is her typing rate per minute? a. 50wpm, b. 66wpm, c. 55wpm, d. 45wpm.\u201d The California Basic Educational Skills Test asks the test taker to find the verb in the following sentence: \u201cThe interior temperatures of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/12\/walter-e-williams\/educational-rot-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent columns have focused on the extremely poor educational outcomes for black students. There\u2019s enough blame for all involved to have their fair share. That includes students who are hostile and alien to the educational process and have derelict, uninterested home environments. After all, if there is not someone in the home to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}