The plan includes four key principles: stronger accountability towards schools for performance results; expanded flexibility and local control; expanded options for parents and students; and emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work. The NCLB Act basically supports a system of challenging state standards in the core subjects of reading and mathematics for students from the third grade to the eighth grade level. ...

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Pragmatism places a greater emphasis on the method and attitude than on systematic philosophical doctrine. It is the method of experimental enquiry extended into realms of human experience. ... A pragmatic teacher should use some real experimental methods in subjects like environmental science. ... In mathematics, the teacher should pose some real life situational that require a simple operational solution. ... In order to install this sense in the teaching and learning and teaching process, both the teacher and leaner are to see themselves as partners in the discovery and extension of knowled...

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In elementary school, the "banking" concept is a commonly used means of teaching students the basics, such as the alphabet, numbers, colors, and ways of completing simple mathematics. ... Unfortunately, the type of conscious stimulation necessary to follow the "problem-posing" method is not always possible because certain teachers simply avoid it and take the "easy way out" when teaching; that is when the students should feel obliged to introduce it into their class. ... With teaching, as with any other profession or activity, there are right and wrong ways of completing the job at hand. ...

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