Education in the UK?

Observer/Guardian:

Parents feel increasingly unable to help their children with homework because they find it too difficult to understand. A study by the General Teaching Council for England has found that parents 'across the social spectrum' are calling on teachers to run sessions that will help them to understand the curriculum and modern teaching methods. They also want schools to provide them with 'homework accompanied by worked examples' so that they can better support their children.

The research highlighted mathematics and science as particularly difficult for parents because the way in which they are taught has changed so dramatically from when today's adults were children. Many also feel teachers are increasingly remote figures with less and less time for parents, especially in secondary schools.

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What is sad is what is being taught is so inadequate that most of these students are not prepared for standardized test that measure basic comprehension. It appears that both the students and the parents could benefit from a back to basics approach.