RITTENBURG TO RUN FOR CVUSD : CANDIDATE TO STRESS HIGH-TECH EDUCATION.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Chuck Rittenburg announced Friday that he will make a third run at a seat on the Conejo Valley Unified School District Conejo Valley Unified School District or CVUSD is a school district in Ventura County. It serves Thousand Oaks, California and its subsections Newbury Park and Westlake Village. board. Rittenburg, 45, said he will run for one of two seats that will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot. Incumbents Dorothy Beaubien and Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Didio previously have announced that they will seek re-election. Rittenburg, an operations research operations research Application of scientific methods to management and administration of military, government, commercial, and industrial systems. It began during World War II in Britain when teams of scientists worked with the Royal Air Force to improve radar detection of specialist with Northrop Nor·throp , John Howard 1891-1987. American biochemist. He shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins. Corp. and father of four, said the district needs to stress basic core knowledge as a precursor precursor /pre·cur·sor/ (pre´kur-ser) something that precedes. In biological processes, a substance from which another, usually more active or mature, substance is formed. In clinical medicine, a sign or symptom that heralds another. to a high-tech education. ``I think we have a good school system, but it could be better, and I see that we're not getting better as fast as we should be,'' he said. Rittenburg ran for the school board in 1989 and again in 1994, when he lost a seat by a mere 184 votes from about 98,000 votes cast for three seats. The district needs to get away from the ``touchy-feely'' approach toward education, the candidate said. For example, he objects to test questions that have neither right nor wrong answers and ask students to write how they feel about the question itself. He also said the math curriculum has been ``dumbed down (jargon) dumbed down - Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. .'' He advocates a more traditional approach to the subject, which he said better prepares students for the outside world. Despite their reliance on computers, many high-tech jobs require a working knowledge of basic math, he said. ``I see how important it is for children to understand math and science basics before they try to program it into computers,'' he said. He also said the district needs to improve communication with parents. |
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