| San Bernardino County, CA | November 8, 2011 Election |
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Redefining "Success" -- and Achieving ItBy Willard A. HughesCandidate for Member, Governing Board; San Bernardino City Unified School District |
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Our current emphasis on Standardized Testing is turning kids off from school and stunting learning. We need to get back to teaching meaningful courses that keep students engaged.I believe student success is measured not by a child's capacity to bubble in answers to multiple-choice questions with a No. 2 pencil, but rather by a child's ability to apply acquired knowledge to real-world problems and experiences. We must de-emphasize the overbearing focus on standardized testing and restore creativity and relevance to our curriculum and instruction. History, science, art, music, and technology education are just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic -- and for so many of our kids, those are the classes where education comes alive. We must expand our offerings in the area of vocational education, recognizing that not all of our graduates will attain a college education and giving our students the tools they will need to immediately enter the workforce with a diploma from the San Bernardino City Schools. We must support programs like the California Cadet Corps, the visual and performing arts, and athletics at all grade levels -- and integrate our core curricular subjects into these programs. These are the programs where our students are engaged in leadership opportunities and meaningful experiences that tie together the knowledge they have acquired in their core subject classes. These are the programs, quite frankly, that will keep our kids in school and keep them interested in learning. These are the programs which, properly supported and properly executed, will do the most toward increasing student learning. |
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