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Dumbing Down K-12 Education
American Thinker ^ | 9 Sep, 2021 | Keri D. Ingraham

Posted on 09/09/2021 3:44:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The inability of U.S. students to perform on par with the majority of other developed nations should cause alarm, given its implications for America’s global leadership. Instead, while other countries take their K-12 education seriously, American leaders are satisfied with pumping more money into an outdated system that continues to fail students and produced mediocre results.

Here’s the sad truth. Twenty-five countries outperform U.S. K-12 students. Those leading the way are China, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Canada. China’s students not only place first overall, but they dominate each individual subject as well. U.S. students straggle in at 33rd in math, 23rd in science, and 17th in reading.

Of course, you wouldn’t learn this listening to the rhetoric coming out our political and educational leaders. Instead, they tout data that ranks U.S. students against other American students, states boast about their performance relative to other states, and school districts flaunt 2 percent gains in graduation rates.

The reality is even worse than the weak performance on average. The majority of U.S. public school students do not achieve grade level proficiency. The Nation’s Report Card reveals that only 28.7 percent of 4th-graders, 26.4 percent of 8th-graders, and a mere 22.8 percent of 12th-graders reach basic proficiency levels averaged across seven subjects (civics, geography, mathematics, reading, science, U.S. history, and writing) on the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests. In other words, over 71 percent of our students lack basic academic proficiencies at the end of their 13-year K-12 schooling.

At a time in history when more learning and skill development are needed, the opposite has occurred. As witnessed throughout the 2020-2021 school year, teacher unions led the charge in our government-funded and run K-12 public education system to make things worse. Putting partisan politics and self-promotion ahead

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; curriculum; education; learning; schools; teaching

1 posted on 09/09/2021 3:44:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The Dem-Coms believe that they have to tear down the current system before they can build the new system. They are about the destruction if the free market system. Education is one of the building blocks and the easiest to destroy in the public school system. COVID is being used to further the destruction as well.


2 posted on 09/09/2021 3:45:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Goals 2000 did its job.


3 posted on 09/09/2021 3:50:04 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: MtnClimber

Lest we forget the purposeful dumbing down of our nation’s students through the mandated implementation of Common Core Sandards.


4 posted on 09/09/2021 3:52:59 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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Also don’t forget . . . https://illinoisfamily.org/education/indoctrinating-from-cradle-to-college/


5 posted on 09/09/2021 4:05:14 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: MtnClimber

I feel sorry for ANY CHILD forced to go their schools, particularly the children of conservatives, who seem to have HIGHER PRIORITIES (wanting a nice ‘lifestyle’) than protecting their kids from the indoctrination and failure of our schools...and many of them that I work with don’t seem to mind spending their money on swimming pools or F150s that they don’t need...but they do get to ‘keep up with the Jones’, and that, I guess, is their top priority.


6 posted on 09/09/2021 4:06:44 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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K-12 education isn’t rocket science. (Actually, most college undergrad education isn’t either.) I homeschooled my children. The one lesson from homeschooling that I learned was focus. You simply need to teach the right stuff and only the right stuff. In business terms, that is efficiency and effectiveness. That’s not occurring in government schools. Government schools are hampered by illiterate teachers that have been indoctrinated instead of educated.


7 posted on 09/09/2021 5:27:16 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: MtnClimber

School reform advocates have been pushing reforms for 30 years and basically nothing has happened. Trump needs to make this a high priority as President in 2025 and push states to do the same.


8 posted on 09/09/2021 5:29:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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“ Here’s the sad truth. Twenty-five countries outperform U.S. K-12 students. Those leading the way are China, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Canada”

What is the proportion of students in those countries with substantial sub-Saharan African or Mayan/Aztec DNA?


9 posted on 09/09/2021 5:34:49 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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It looks as though even if we didn’t include government schools in cities such as Baltimore in the U.S. averages, we would still be sucking air compared to some of the Asian countries. (But it would brighten the picture to consider U.S. scores that didn’t include the big city schools where illiteracy is championed.)


10 posted on 09/09/2021 6:23:36 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Election Fraud Deniers--Won't follow the science, won't follow the law.)
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“The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America — A Chronological Paper Trail”, will change forever the way you look at your child’s education. Written by whistleblower Charlotte T. Iserbyt, it is the result of what she discovered while working in the US Department of Education and her subsequent research on the subject.
http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/

The Secret History of Western Education: The Scientific Destruction of Minds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL-FcPcOpqO7nb8B61u93nQbTNLl7U6aY2&v=4e3fy1iO7kc


11 posted on 09/09/2021 9:29:07 AM PDT by plsjr (<>< Mankind "knows" by trial and error. Only the CREATOR really knows His creation... and the TRUTH.)
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"Dumbing Down K-12 Education"

Impossible!
It has been at the ZERO level since the 1990's...
Probably Keri meant to say that K-12 education has finally approached negative infinity...

12 posted on 09/09/2021 10:15:02 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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