Re: [Phys-l] CA mandates 8th grade algebra test

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Is there on record an earlier educational war than the one won,  
temporally, using hemlock?  In Cuneiform or Linear B, perhaps; how  
about in Lascaux?

I remember, back in the early fifties,  a right wing radio ham  
railing* about the progressive ed. instituted by the Santa Barbara  
(CA) Board of Ed.


* Dewey's name was preceded by an expletive.

bc, former W6TFE

p.s. a very interesting history [N.B.:  Jerrold Zacharias is  
misspelled.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_progressivism


On 2008, Jul 12, , at 21:14, John Denker wrote:

> The current math wars in California have been going on for years,
> ... and can be seen as a continuation of the math wars of the 1990s
> (predating NCLB) which can in turn be seen as a continuation of the
> math wars of the 1960s...........