Unfortunately your analysis is correct. Just as a note, though: what do you expect? The school / department in the typical university that intellectually ranks just above varsity athletics is the school of education. Nice kids being brainwashed with the (very slightly) better ones going on to “innovate” in education.
We must reestablish federalism and dramatically shrink federal involvement in things that are not enumerated by the Constitution. Then we need to give an intellectual enema to academia by getting rid of the overblown “new” studies departments — including schools of education.
Teachers need to have a domain expertise in a subject but not in teaching per se. Teaching is learned by doing and in conjunction with an experienced teacher not by sitting on your fanny being indoctrinated in socialism.
That sounds excellent, and I am fully supportive of what you have suggested. But tell me, how will it become reality?
Gov. Walker in WI has taken on the teachers unions and won thus far, which is great, and we’ll soon see if he can retain his seat. But despite doing more than nearly anyone else to challenge those taking education in the wrong direction, Wisconsin still has adopted Common Core. Many teachers still rabidly hate Walker and we know their left-wing bias is carried into the classroom. Local school boards allow these things to happen. So how are the ideas you put forth ever going to become a reality?