Posted on 03/06/2015 5:32:38 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
In the race to the future, education is key. Everyone knows that. And yet, if that's so, America may be in big trouble.
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MAY be ?
Dollars to doughnuts the teachers score more poorly than their students.
But we will never know, will we?
All Americans get lumped together. Kind of wonder how the results break down by race.
Expect the test score trend to get worse as we get more diverse.
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
I have several public school teachers as neighbors. They don’t know their asses from their elbows. A few weeks ago, one told me she was taking her history class of 10th graders to the movies.
I asked her if they were going to “American Sniper”? She said, “a war mongering movie about an American coward? Nope. We’re going to see Selma”. I said “it’s guys like the hero in AS that made it possible for you to see a movie like Selma and have ignorant ass backwards thoughts and have the freedom to express them”. I haven’t spoken to her since.
That scam has been spectacularly successful...it has bought 40 years of additional funding and forbearance.
Those tests are just asking the wrong questions. I bet there’s not one question about Katy Perry or Bruce Jenner in there.
That is JUST the kind of brief and concise data I need ... thanx
The root problem with education is simple. Government has taken over what should be individual responsibilities. Combine that with the fact that government is rarely efficient and effective, government education is expensive and doesn't work. People can take personal responsibility despite the government. Homeschoolers are an example of that. But there are a variety of methods. Personally, I have done the home schooling with my children. My children have gone to private school and public school. My one remaining school age child now does cyber school. Each stage of their childhood had different circumstances and the methods of education changed. There was one constant - a parent that insisted on good education.
Sample questions can be found at the end of the article here:
The “tech” questions seem to be more computer information gathering exercises than anything else. The math and literacy questions are only difficult if you don’t read the directions - as are most other things in life.
We are 25 - 35 years behind the times with education. We need to eliminate tenure, pay for performance, eliminate departments of education, and offer choice.
That would fix the mess we have.
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