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You'll appreciate this-
http://www.beverlye.com/perfect-crime_20010317.html

a tidbit:

"Facilitate: That’s what teaching is called now in the field. It entails a whole new curricular experience: "survival and coping skills," "anger management," "conflict resolution," "self-esteem," "sexual diversity," and so on. Little in the curriculum provides insight into our cultural or constitutional underpinnings.
Courses like logic, philosophy, and civics, that once helped kids get a handle on modern issues, are gone. Nothing incorporates the values of self-reliance, property rights, limited government (especially in the context of regulatory power), or the role of religion in our society. Physics, chemistry, calculus, and physiology are reserved for the few with very high IQ scores.

Now, four consequences necessarily follow from this shift of emphasis:

First, both curriculum and testing center on passions.
Secondly, the group is put before individual students.
Today’s "cooperative learning" concept is aimed at turning out "team players," not at supporting individual performance. That means peer pressure is heightened instead of alleviated.
Which brings us to consequence #3: Children flit from one activity to another, with no continuity between skill-bases, distracted and discouraged from the kind of study that results in the ability to make logical conclusions. Post-modern people, you see, are not supposed to be moved by reason, and given the events of the past 8 years, obviously they’re not. So, the endless distractions create both an intellectual and emotional void.
Finally, because group-think and consensus are rewarded over independent thought, the old school cliques we knew have "morphed" into violent, "Lord of the Flies"-style, kiddy subcultures, like Littleton’s Trench-Coat Mafia, indulging in brutal territorial exercises. That’s "mob rule."
So, in effect, children are being "warehoused," not educated. "

It's long, but the best assessment of public education today I've ever read.
The scary part is you get a real good idea of just what we're up against.