Get your kids out of the government schools!
Nothing has changed in that respect. Nothing!
From Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008...
“[Bill] Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.
One of Ayer’s descriptions for a course called ‘Improving Learning Environments’ says prospective K-12 teachers need to ‘be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.
The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama’s relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.’...”
Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
From the very beginning government schooling was a single-payer socialist-entitlement. Nothing good can come from that.
**THAT** is the problem and always has been with government schooling. It can NOT be fixed!
From The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America",
Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.
How many parents know there are more than one "philosophy of education?" How many Americans know that it is impossible to obtain a licence to teach in the United States - anywhere - without adopting one - and only ONE - flavor of one school of thought - the emotively named "Progressive" model of experimentalism pushed by Dewey and his eugenics-promoting comrades. It is avowedly anti-American and, in fact, can hardly be described in English.
Gatto's book (online at the link above) however is not so focused on the boring techniques and dry and obscure work by Dewey. It starts with a comparison between how children are taught in the U.S. today with the education of young George Washington.
Gatto should be secretary of education, over the period that department is defunded and phased out.
Probably why these folks didn’t like Catholic schools. They educated millions of those poor folks, and still do.
The Carnegie unit trains people to ‘the bell.’ Hear the bell whistle, and change locations. Do something else.