Freedom from ideas?
Deciding what is to be labelled as "archaic"?? (old and therefore somehow bad... like our Founders and their Constitution??)
Smells an awful lot like someone has the progressive infection, even with some notions in there that I would get behind.
Without educational freedom, the United States will fail to develop career and college ready students prepared for a global economy and a successful future. International test scores prove American children can barely keep pace with their global counterparts. As the United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said of the results of the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA), “…[t]he big picture of U.S. performance on the 2012 PISA is straightforward and stark: It is a picture of educational stagnation.”
One could make a better case for educational freedom than a badly administered test.
The PISA test fails to control for educational admissions criteria, which can serve to make the US look worse than they actually are. In the case of the United States, this means that the open admissions catches the good, the average, and the bad. In other countries with more restrictive admissions, it only catches the good students. With that in mind, PISA only serves one purpose - to make the US look bad in comparison to European/Asian systems.