RE: QUESTION: Achievement and Progression

Part 2C.

For our democracy to work we must have literate citizens.  I do not see competency education as separate from the content they need to learn.

This brings us back to the issues from a few days ago of a balanced integrated curriculum, and to a comment from earlier today about vocational students needed physics, chemistry, and higher math.

Our curriculum from pre K to university needs to inlcude (along with the "core" subjects: health, history, social studies, civics, world geography, world literature, and multiple languages so our students can understand and value other cultures, communicate with other cultures and solve the problems that face all of us.

Just putting in time in a classroom will not, has not produced literate citizens.  It seems to me that competency education, if we deal with equity issues, will raise the bar for every student.