Avisiting curriculum evaluation team criticized a school district for teaching too much inert knowledge. a disadvantage, they said, is that, according to educational psychologists, inert knowledge is:

Teaching too much inert knowledge can be a waste of education as this kind of knowledge can not help students in realistic problem solving situations. Inert knowledge is information that can be expressed but not used. An example of this is learning too much theory, most of which does not apply to real life problems.

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