UCLA parents: Student services cut

arabrab
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:07:02 +0000

Integrated Science is yet another progressive education notion that just fails. While I am willing to believe that there are a few schools that do it well, I have yet to see any public school (and I work with detailed data from several dozen of them) whose students seem to benefit from integrated science other than the very weakest students for whom schools and districts are simply trying to give the kid enough credits to graduate and to nominally meet state standards.

I have seen some good integrated math programs (Saxon and Singapore, for two) – but not high school science.