American is best

Why we Canadians seem to respect American ideas so very much is beyond me. One of the things that offends me about the Rick Wormeli presentation is that the money must have come out of the education budget somewhere. When education is in a financial crisis in this province, perhaps we should be looking at saving money and possibly promoting Canadian educators rather then American.

The American education system is quite honestly one of the worst in the world. They should be looking to Canada for advice on how to improve. They are considering mass school closures in which all staff would be fired. I am thinking that if Rick Wormeli really has the solution to education then perhaps he should clean up his own back yard first.

http://www.calitics.com/diary/11249/mass-school-closures-loom-especially-in-communities-of-color

We have plenty of educators right here in St. Paul with 20+ years of teaching experience who might have some really great ideas on how to improve exam grades. I am thinking that their ideas may be more relevant to our students then some American educator. I am sure one of those suggestions might be to give them more time to work on exam preparation.

Just an idea but perhaps it would be better to ask teachers who already have 4 to 6 years of University Education on a variety of teaching theories what they think would help them achieve better exam grades.