I have sometimes posed the rhetorical question, as to whether the state of public education has improved , since we created a Department of Education.
That would depend on what these students were meant to improve in, it certainly wasn’t to be education or to be striving to be your BEST!! Now if they were meant to improve in being wards of the state with little minds of mush they have improved 1000%!
“I have sometimes posed the rhetorical question, as to whether the state of public education has improved , since we created a Department of Education.”
If you knew the people who inhabit the US Department of Education, you’d know that are the SAME PEOPLE who were out in the streets protesting Vietnam and then Reagan, and wanted an end to the US being top-dog (even if it meant losing the Cold War).
As to whether education has improved in the US - of course not, but that doesn’t mean that the people working at the Department of Education don’t consider their 50 year run successful, as they consider it a COMPLETE SUCCESS, because, back then, we were near the top in education...and now we’re at the bottom.
Mission Accomplished.