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You know what's interesting about that study is that when they looked at the percentage decrease of every time division that wasn't reading and math (science, social studies,art and music, even recess) every group was cut by a third. The absolute amount of minutes of social studies and science that were lost were greater because more time was devoted to them in the past. But what the schools basically seemed to do was cut everything by a third and then fill it with the 3 R's.

My questions are:

1. Is all of that time spent on rote skills and test-taking? Is there a break-down of how that time is used qualitatively?

2. How much reading and math teaching encorporates science and social studies contexts into the curriculum?

3. Have science and social studies grades dropped? Are science teachers in high school finding their students less prepared?

4. Are we prepared to live in a world where our kids get less science AND less recess? I'm not.