The road to qulaity education is very simple:
Set high standards.
Maintain disipline.
Involve the parents.
Currently, our shcools lower the standards, refuse to maintain discipline and the unions exclude parental involvement.
Administratively, run the school systems locally and keep the federal propaganda machine out of the schools. I have a granddaughter in the fifth grade in a very prestigious PUBLIC school in a very wealthy area. As an example of the liberal group think being perpetrated on our youth, she knows who Rachel Carson and Martin Luther King were, but she had not been taught who Adolph Hitler was. We are raising children in a fantasy world with the Department of Education’s national curricla initiative leading the charge.
The Federal role in education should be to keep the hell out. That’s where I stand. And on the need for MORE national involvement in our schools, I do not stand with Mitch Daniels. Our schools not be leftwing indoctrination centers. Mitch Daniels supports Obama’s cultural revolution. I do not. Indiana knows better than Washington. So does every other state and local community.
nail on head!
I think you’ve got it just right.
You left out the most important part:
Take the fedgov out of education entirely. If that doesn’t happen, it will only get worse.