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}} Regarding cooperation with math teachers and revising courses, I feel
that we in ALL areas of education are so frequently failing to see the
larger picture.  I agree that it would be helpful to revise courses and
coordinate with math teachers.
}} However, this is not sufficient.  We squander our resources by
failing to connect ALL areas of study, or at least large blocks of them.
I refer to models such as those of Ted Sizer's Coalition of Essential
Schools, where a model of scheduling might be a two period day with
math/scienc/technical subjects in the morning and arts/humanities int
the afternoon, and even those two blocks are connected.

}} I say this as a "traditional" teacher, from conviction (and some
boredom!)rather than experience.  It makes a great deal of sense to me,
however, to teach a subject which I know will be connected to subjects-
and I mean direct, operational connections which are clear to students-
other than my own.

}} Perhaps this is a pessimistic tone, but I truly believe that we will
have little impact, or, at least, less thn possible, if we continue to
present discrete, largely unconnected courses, no matter how good our
intentions or creative our efforts. Maybe tommorrow morning I will be a
little more hopeful!

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   Joseph F. McLaughlin, Physics
   jxm39.psuvm.psu.edu
   Brentwood High School
   Brentwood (Pittsburgh), PA