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K-12: Drain This Swamp
American Thinker ^ | January 27, 2017 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 01/27/2017 2:57:12 PM PST by Kaslin

Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp in Washington. This task is especially urgent in that large, malodorous part of the swamp known as Education.

The Education Establishment makes everything murky and unproductive by an endless spew of jargon, incoherent theories, goofy methods, phony research, and new names for failed ideas. Finally, no two Americans can talk constructively about anything in education. It's as if they are talking across vast linguistic and cultural barriers, not over coffee at Starbucks. Education is now the fog-shrouded domain of dumbing down. Pervasive murkiness is a big part of the reason why so much educational reform remains stymied. Nothing moves fast in a swamp.

Here, then, is a simple formula for quickly draining the educational swamp: eliminate all the counterproductive ideas introduced over the last 85 years. That's it. These bad ideas, like the viruses in your computer, did not appear by accident. They were systematically and deliberately placed in the schools by John Dewey's socialist "change agents." The good news is that these bad ideas can be removed in that same deliberate way – just as a technician removes viruses from your computer. Presto: schools will be better and cheaper.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: betsydevos; devos; dewey; draintheswamp; education; johndewey; nea; presidenttrump; publicschools; trump45; trumpeducation
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To: magna carta

The newist comments by Malkin i can find on this subject are from 2015. Nothing about Devos.


41 posted on 02/01/2017 1:09:00 AM PST by exnavy (God save the republic.)
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To: exnavy

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/12/michelle-malkin-grassroots-fight-to-sink-trumps-education-nominee-will-be-one-of-biggest-battles-of-2017/

Of course u won’t trust lower ranking everyday conservative activists to warn you abt DeVos right? There’s Alice Linahan in TX that runs Women on the Wall and Ginger Russell who exposed C-Scope curriculum gathering Texans over at the Texans for Homeschool FB page-these ppl are too low ranking for you, they aren’t getting reported in the press right?

Reminds me of the left-wing snowflakes I encountered yesterday who ignored me at the Muslim Day at the Capitol who refused to believe me about Islam and its aversion to dogs.


42 posted on 02/01/2017 4:33:41 AM PST by magna carta
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To: magna carta

I have met the woman.


43 posted on 02/01/2017 3:22:05 PM PST by exnavy (God save the republic.)
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To: exnavy

THE INDOCTRINATION MUST STOP!


44 posted on 02/01/2017 5:32:01 PM PST by magna carta
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To: magna carta

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=ca0436d7-61c3-4c8c-9d8d-73c94a9174c3&preview=true&m=1104610489842&id=preview

more info on her from grassroots conservatives


45 posted on 02/01/2017 6:40:01 PM PST by magna carta
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To: magna carta

Home school, charter school, eliminate public school.


46 posted on 02/02/2017 12:51:10 AM PST by exnavy (God save the republic.)
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go visit charter schools on twitter they are total social justice. in Houston YES PREP formed a partnership with CH.45 a station that behaves as 5th column for mexico


47 posted on 02/02/2017 8:24:50 AM PST by magna carta
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To: Kaslin

I agree with you. Trump will make the policy, not DeVos or whoever it is.

Eighteen months ago, Trump announced that Common Core had to go. That was a big deal to me. I think there’s a lot of reason for optimism.


48 posted on 02/03/2017 10:55:08 AM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice (education reform)
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