From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Yep Neil's really progressive GMAB

http://www.nndb.com/people/505/000026427/

During a 2002 appearance at Whitney High School in Cerritos, California,
Neil Bush told the audience of assembled high schoolers that nobody
actually wants to study calculus, declaring that they shouldn't be
"forced to study something a kid thinks is terribly useless and
obscure."


"Mark"  wrote in message news:44237c9d{at}w3....
> So, is "Ignite" really as bad as "they" make it
out to be, or is it just a
> case of "other educators" being unhappy with it because it's
by a Bush?
>
> I mean like are "other educators" unhappy with NCLB too, because it
> measures their progress? Or is it, basically that,
"progressives" don't
> like accountability much, unless they're the ones wielding the hammer?
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:442366d6$1{at}w3....
>> It's just tacky way to give a charitable contribution while making sure
>> your son gets the benefits.
>>
>> Remember this is the Neil Bush of Silverado fame
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35297-2003Dec27?language=printer
>>
>> However, Ignite! has been attacked by other educators for dumbing down
>> history. Among its controversial aspects is a lesson that depicts the
>> Seminole Wars in a cartoon football game -- "the Jacksons vs. the
>> Seminoles" -- the animated Indians smashing helmets with animated white
>> settlers. The Constitutional Convention is taught in a rap song:
>> It was 55 delegates from 12 states
>>
>> Took one hot Philadelphia summer to create
>>
>> A perfect document for their imperfect times
>>
>> Franklin, Madison, Washington -- a lot of the cats
>>
>> Who used to be in the Continental Congress way back.
>>
>> Ignite! is working well, Bush wrote in an e-mail: "Teachers
and students
>> have given anecdotal feedback that confirms the powerful impact our
>> program is having on student achievement, student focus and attitudes,
>> and teacher success in reaching all of their students."
>>
>> But at Whitney reviews were less laudatory. "The kids felt pretty
>> strongly that what this was about was lowering the bar," says Humes.
>>
>> Humes wasn't impressed, either. "There was a lot of rhyming
and games,"
>> he says. "It reminded me of what my son uses -- but he's in
>> kindergarten."
>>
>> When Bush spoke at Whitney, several students began arguing with him.
>>
>> "He was very surprised," Humes recalls. "You had to
see the look on his
>> face when one young woman got up and said she liked calculus. He said it
>> was useless. This is the branch of mathematics that makes space travel
>> possible, and he said it was useless."
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:44235f81{at}w3....
>>> I'm not familiar with "Ignite" is it a bad program
or something, or does
>>> it work well to help students learn?
>>>
>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>> news:44235d63{at}w3....
>>>> Propping up Neil Bush while calling it charity
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/14170174.htm
>>>>
>>>> Barbara Bush earmarked Katrina donation for son's company
>>>> HOUSTON - Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to the
>>>> Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund on the condition that it be spent to buy
>>>> educational software from her son Neil's company.
>>>>
>>
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