Hello everyone. My name is Carolyn Davis and I'm a writer for the Inquirer editorial pages. My beats include education and other issues about children, topics I have covered for longer than I care to remember. This forum, called "The Philadelphia Schools: Progress and Problems, is part of our Great Expectations project on the city's mayoral election.
This gathering is being held in what we call the public room at the Inquirer. If you've ever walked by 400 N. Broad St., it's the room with the giant windows at street level. There probably are about 100 people here now along with the panel members. Our guests are Michael Masch, the Pennsylvania budget director who also used to be on the School Reform Commission; Sharmain Matlock Turner, president of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition; Michael Casserly who heads the national education group, the Council of Great City Schools; Darlene Callands Curry with the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Alliance for Educational Options; and Jolley Bruce Christman, founder of the group Research for Action, which has done numerous studies on Philadelphia school reforms. Chris Satullo, editorial page editor and my boss, is brilliantly describing this forum and project (I told you he's my boss, didn't I?) Well, I'll let Chris finish with the housekeeping announcements and return with my first report of what the panelists are saying.
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hi everybody. I'm new here and just want to share things and comment about the new thingkings on education and its latest development.I'm Malaysian, on my 30's, male and just finished my MA on social sciences. my thesis in on educational practices.
i just want to comment on the recent cliam that student nowadays lacks of quality and achivement due to our educational system.
Frankly, for me, this fenomena, if we can all it, is the result of the normal curve concept in evaluating these students. there is a thought that there must be 3 types of student in each time an evaluation is done for an intake of students, especially to the university. the best, the middle and the underachivement.for some reason, there must be some high-achivers, lots of middle achivers and some under-achivers.
to obtain this, the board of evaluation body, must first get the rough results of the exams. Then they will sort the results from the highest to the lowest or vice versa. from it, they determine the the marks for one to get an A or B in the exams and the marks to determine a D or an F.
for me this can be either cruel for the student if, for instance, the majority get good results for the test. because, from the point of view of the normal curve, the majority should be of the middle achievers, the B ar the C grade. While, student of high quality and low quality should be kept at a minimum.
for those who have comments on this, I would welcome comments and views. TQ.
Posted by nurul | August 14, 2007 10:27 PM
Posted on August 14, 2007 22:27
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