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Skills assessment for fourth graders

Are you as smart as a fourth grader? The following are some of the tasks a fourth grader is expected to perform on a first trimester interim assessment text, the results of which are shared with parents along with a percentage grade for each item. Teachers and parents are encouraged to target areas in which a child is lagging.

Why not use cybernetics?

Want to improve education? Use cybernetics. Cybernetics is not some science fiction, futuristic, complex gizmo festooned with blinking lights, but a concept as old as sentient beings. The term was coined in 1948 by mathematician Norbert Wiener and taken from the Greek word for “steersman.” It means nothing more than establishing a course by observing the surrounding environment and steering accordingly, whether this is done by a human or an automated machine — as was first done during World War II when aircraft and submarines pinged their surroundings with radar and sonar.

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