Re: HS physics course titles

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

Shakespere said that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet

To paraphrase," A dumbded-down physics course by any other
name can never be made to sound any sweeter".

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
( Where you could call regular physics "Physics"
and the descriptive course "Honors Physics" but it won't take more than
a week or two for the students to know which one is the
dumbded down course)

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 08:52:28 -0700 "Daniel S. Price"
<dprice@JEFFCO.K12.CO.US> writes:
> This topic is very much related to a question I raised last year
> about
> retitling and reconfiguring our existing four courses.  I have
> successfully changed the title of the least-mathematic course from
> 'Inquiry Physics' to 'Conceptual Physics', though both are perceived
> as
> "dumbed-down".  [By the same token, our algebra-based course called
> simply 'Physics' is widely perceived as "too difficult".]