Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!nather From: nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior? Message-ID: <9653@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 20 Jan 89 17:37:40 GMT References: <14.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> <349@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 18 In article <349@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, troly@redwood.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly) writes: > For example there are *college* > courses for future teachers which teach things like adding fractions. But > I think that an adult who can't add fractions should not be admitted to > college and definitely should never be allowed to teach. These people > will be teaching math to your kids!!!! There is hope. The University of Texas at Austin (not noted world-wide as a leader in liberal education theory) has just abandoned a full set of such courses for education majors; they must now major in, and pass, the same curricula as everyone else. No more "educator's math" which I heard described by a giggling co-ed in an elevator as "...kindergarden math that satisfies the math requirement!" -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin