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Ignoramus3314 wrote:

ROTFLMAO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...rejects-critic
al-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html?tid=pm_local_pop

Or: http://goo.gl/PFCg6

``We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
(values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs
that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery
learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of
challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental
authority.''

Then, they say

`We believe that because the Permanent School Fund is not paid by
taxpayers that the principle balance should be safeguarded''

I think that they meant "principal balance".

I'd be careful here. We have no idea what exactly in in HOTS, and are
instead being presented with argument by ridicule.

And I got off the train when they claimed that critical thinking cannot
be taught. Nonsense. It has been taught for millennia. The Ancient
Greeks called it Rhetoric, which was a core part of the Liberal
Education ever since, and it is taught to this day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric

Joe Gwinn