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dministrators had seemingly little reason to question Daggett's expertise.
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We are the only industrialized nation on the face of the Earth that thinks that you teach biology and chemistry as separate courses. Biochemistry universally, across the globe, is seen as one in the same."
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High schools are doing right to teach chemistry as such (separate), so that students get the basics before they turn to the vastly more complex molecules that you have to deal with in biochemistry," said Duckworth.
In Addition, Kazuo Tachibana, a chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo, said Japan also teaches chemistry and biology separately. England also teaches chemistry and biology separately.
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Daggett cited a massive Harvard study.
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ouglas Winsor, special assistant to the dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said he could not find the study.
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A lot of it (educational consulting) is a scam, because the people who get hired don't really know much or don't meet the needs they are being hired to address or, in a few cases, are themselves frauds," said Finn. "There's so much emphasis in the field (education) on 'professional development' and 'in-service,' and so many dollars rolling around for those purposes that it's easy for this racket to flourish.
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"Twenty-nine nations in the world require four years of technical reading and writing to graduate from high school."
FACT: David Robitaille, international coordinator of the Third International Math and Science Study and a professor at the University of British Columbia said, "I've never heard of such a thing," and said none of the countries he has studied have such requirement
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In 1996, 62 percent of the colleges in this country-the community colleges-did not require a high school diploma for admission.
FACT: Renee Gernand, who is in charge of the College Board's database, said 75 percent of the two-year schools require a diploma for admission, 98 percent of four-year schools require a diploma. She said, "My data on this is very good. I don't know where he got his numbers.
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Fifty-four percent of the students in Arizona attend charter schools. Twenty-four percent of the students in California attend charter schools.
FACT: According to the California Department of Education's website, 9 percent of all students are in charter schools, Director of Charter Schools Administration in Arizona Lyle Skillan said currently 4.2 percent of its students are in charter schools.
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