WE'RE 1,000% SURE - NUMBER ABUSE ABOUNDS NORTH SPORTS FINAL Edition

Americans cannot adequately handle numbers, according to virtually every recent study on the topic. And, as with every other educational "crisis," people divide into camps and blame each other. Parents blame new math and too little graded work by teachers; teachers blame parents for too li...

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Published inChicago tribune (1963)
Main Author Gary M. Galles. Gary M. Galles is an economics professor at Pepperdine University
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, Ill Tribune Interactive, LLC 07.12.1994
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Summary:Americans cannot adequately handle numbers, according to virtually every recent study on the topic. And, as with every other educational "crisis," people divide into camps and blame each other. Parents blame new math and too little graded work by teachers; teachers blame parents for too little involvement and administrators for large class sizes; administrators blame "stingy" taxpayers for their limited budgets; and kids, especially teenagers, seem to blame everybody for everything. One of today's most obvious misleading number games is grade inflation. Teachers have accommodated student desires for higher grades (in part, so no one's self-esteem could be damaged) to the point that the median grade point average of graduating seniors went from about 2.2 in 1965 to 2.9 by 1982 and over 3.0 today. At Stanford University, Fs do not exist and 93 percent of Stanford's students get As and Bs.
ISSN:1085-6706