The Onion Finds a New Reason to Worry about US Students
By dianerav
February 11, 2013 //
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Watch this, get a good laugh, and go to sleep!
We see similar nonsense in the mainstream media every day, but this one is funny.
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Did you mean this Onion story?
www.theonion.com/video/us-high-school-students-falling-behind-china-many,30903/
Too funny. Too bad they did not go farther and have Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates blame the teachers and offer their solutions by way of more testing and teacher accountability. I guess it wouldn’t have been funny then.
This is still my favorite Onion piece on standardized testing. Warning: Uses bad words and sailor talk:
www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-are-tests-biased-against-students-who,17966/
Yes!!! This is just the best!
Perhaps the most relevant is
POINT/COUNTERPOINT • Education • Opinion • Jul 17, 2012
POINT: My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids
By Megan Richmond, Volunteer Teacher
COUNTERPOINT: Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher?
By Brandon Mendez, James Miller Elementary School Student
www.theonion.com/articles/my-year-volunteering-as-a-teacher-helped-educate-a,28803/
dealing with a new fresh-faced college graduate who doesn’t know what he or she is doing year after year is growing just a little bit tiresome. Seriously, can we get an actual teacher in here sometime in the next decade, please? That would be terrific.