Posted on 09/16/2013 4:08:08 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
[SUMMARY: All levels of education influence each other. College professors can greatly help higher education by joining the fight to improve secondary education.]--
No school is an island; each school, each sector of education, is connected to the others. Influences flow between them. It’s reasonable to think a nation’s educational institutions will rise and fall together.
College professors may hope they can retreat to an ivory tower, untouched by the mediocrity in our public schools. Some professors may believe they are an intellectual aristocracy, and as such cannot be contaminated by the rabble below.
However, the contamination relentlessly spreads and has for almost 100 years, ever since John Dewey and his progressive educators began to control public education. They wanted to shape the type of society that the US becomes. Naturally they want to control higher education too.
To understand the depth and longevity of the contamination, we merely have to look at one of the seminal books of the 20th century, “Educational Wastelands -- the Retreat from Learning in our Public Schools” written by Professor Arthur Bestor in 1953. Imagine that; 60 years ago a distinguished professor of history took on the saboteurs of education at every level.
During the mid-1950's, Professor Bestor tried to mobilize all the academics in the country to join him in supporting traditional standards. He complained that left-wing professors were undermining higher education and trying to corrupt the training of future teachers.
Simultaneously with his campaign at the university level, Bestor unleashed his lightning bolt of a book at the phony K-12 educators he called “educationists.”
In short, Arthur Bestor was a tough-minded visionary and should be the patron saint of all who see the interconnections between every level of education. Bestor promoted his views aggressively, and at risk to his career...
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The article is not about professors having anything to do with public schools personally or directly. (Not a good idea, I agree.)
The point is that they should be able to explain to the community, the school board, and the local paper what is going on in the schools. Ideally, the professors would become aggressive spokespeople for the best in education at all levels.
School in not for everyone.
And this cored curriculum coming down the pike is awful.
The schools say “climb this tree”, fish can’t, elephants can’t so therefore they are stupid.
Are we really Dome heads?
I think I would have done well with the on line schooling if we had had it back then.
I have spoken to many grade and middle school teachers, now retired, who said that this has been going on since the early 70’s.
Oddly enough, this is NOT Obama’s Fault.
Falls on teachers unions and liberals
I am here in Canada for awhile... others' lawsuits are preferable to Canadian apologies. 
“Kindergartners should be more involved with College Professor’s education. We would all be a lot better off...”
Worth repeating.
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