Gooder.

It's gooder!

Good, gooder, goodest.

Public, publicker, publickest!

/product of public education system, K-12 and college.

//done plenty good enough!

Boxen?

I have to know which one submitter attended. It must have been a real goodlier school.

mryoop789: Boxen?

LOL at the Brian Regan reference. Good one.

Well, as a wise man once said:

KNOWLEDGE IS GOOD.

/fat, stupid and drunk is no way to go through life, son.

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Speako english goodly?

mryoop789: Boxen?

Nice.

A government study says U.S. public school students generally did as well or better in reading and mathematics as their private school counterparts.

this has been true for years. the fact of the matter is, most people don't send their kids to a private school to get them a better education, they send them there to keep them away from "undesirables".

my verbs are always telling my nouns what to do.
\naggish verbs

A headline like that is representative of the decline of grammar in the email era (I'm guilty too). Some of the smartest people I know write me the most incomprehensible messages on a daily basis. Granted these journalists should have better editors, but that headline isn't very surprising.

It seemed like a perfectly cromulent headline to me...

link's farked

Assessing based on standardized test scores is kind of deceptive... since most public schools do only one thing well, and that's train kids to take standardized tests.

Damn liberal school system.

I blame it for being married to multiple gay animals. They told me it was ok! Now I realize I'm destroying marriage.

Education is a mulit-part process, with the two most important things being parent and student involvement and effort.

Teachers are important for helping those that struggle.

But, students of average and above-average intelligence, who have supportive parents, will perform pretty much equally whether they have shiatty or good teachers.

If we can teach ebonics in schools, I think we can chance altering the rules of grammer to allow this without causing any serious damage.

The study also found students in conservative Christian schools lagged behind those in public schools in eighth-grade math.

That's because Christians ARE ALWAYS RUINING EVERYTHING BLARG BLARG BLARG.

MOOSEN!

/Yay, good comic

I'm pretty sure the adverb form would be "goodly."

They must've forgotten Chicago. None of these idiots can even read.

The newspaper I work for, it is the editors who do the headlines.

That may not be universal, but I usually cut the writer some slack in these cases...

*smacks forehead*

/Is our children learning?

Brian?
Whaaaat?
What's the plural for 'moose'?
...Moosen! Many much, moosen. In the woods. The woodesen. There were many much moosen in the woodenesen!

Way to go submitter! That's learn 'em.

Schlingfo

Unfortunately, colleges only care about scores (and diversity). Bad teachers may = bad scores, simply because the teacher isn't making clear what he/she wants, so the kid gets screwed.

The study also found students in conservative Christian schools lagged behind those in public schools in eighth-grade math.

And in college-level international politics!

/got it to work
//flame fodder, baby

The do-gooder is doing well.

I had to think really hard why 'do as good as' was bad grammar.

/oy vey

Not a single person who reads that headline would misinterpret its meaning due to the "good" vs. "well" error.

Therefore, there IS nothing wrong with its composition. Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive; if meaning is accurately conferred, that is sufficient.

It's amazing how in a self evaluation, the person doing the evaluation is always as good or better than the competition.

Smitty, are you assuming the headline writer went to public school? Does TFA say that anywhere?

poot_rootbeer: that is sufficient

party pooper.

poot_rootbeer: Therefore, there IS nothing wrong with its composition. Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive; if meaning is accurately conferred, that is sufficient.

Worstest argument ever is the this.

Interesting that the reporter switched to "well" in the body of the article.

"Public schools do as well as private ones."

would have been more correct.

Less people think they's both real good.

Is our children learning?

2006-07-18 03:37:33 PM poot_rootbeer
Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive


mean what you do? both not it is?

\may the force be with you

poot_rootbeer

my 10 th grade english teacher would hang your junk in a sling for such and expression. shame on you

dillenger69: Less people

Nice. "Fewer" vs. "less" is another one that gets my goat.

I almost put an apostrophe in "gets" for some reason.

How about the Zoolander Institute For Those Who Don't Read Good?

A spokesman for the Education Department said, "We're not just for public schools or private schools. We're for good well schools."

There. Fixed.

You maybe smartest then me but I'm a gooder talker!

The head of the National Education Association told the newspaper the findings showed public schools are "doing an outstanding job."

Ah, no. It means that you aren't any worse than the private schools, under these criteria. Trust the NEA to be totally incapable of simple understanding. Just becuase you're better than someone else doesn't mean that you're good.

Yeah, but hot teachers sleeping with students only happens in public schools, right?

2006-07-18 03:42:49 PM KrispyKringle

unless you're trolling...

good= adjective
well= adverb

e.g. consider this imaginary slogan. "public education: good schools doing well"

mediaho: Worstest argument ever is the this.

Hahaha!

When we reduce the english language to a basic fonetik strukture the publik skools will soon enuf katch up with privit ones, and the onlee difrence will be the kolige admishuns.

"graduates of them"?