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Worse than that, his solutions (and I'm generally a VDH fan) all smack of spending more on schools, paying teachers more, etc. If we got rid of the teachers' unions, required new teachers to have real academic majors before getting a teaching credential, and gave teachers/principals the ability to expel (or at least warehouse somewhere else) students who are unruly or won't do the work, the education the kids get would improve dramatically without spending a whole lot more.
“...required new teachers to have real academic majors before getting a teaching credential.......”
Bingo. I would apply this to Journalism majors also. They’re frought with the same shortcomings that teachers are. I’ve increasingly come to the conclusion that journalism is a worthless major. It’s increasingly painfully obvious that most journalists are extremely ignorant about the things they write about. If you teach a subject, you should have to major in that subject. If you write about geo-politics, science, economics and finance, etc. THOSE should be the msjors.....not journalism. Journalism, at best, should be a minor.
And I agree with VDH (always do), that we need to cut the touchy-feely hogwash out of the school curriculum.