There has to be some system of accountibility for teachers and professors. If their teaching methods are not effectively producing results they should be terminated. No Tenure or protections for teaching positions should exist. Evaluations should be based on performance and how much the students are learning.
There is a move in some schools back to the teaching methods employed in the ‘50’s. There was a common sense approach to academics back then. Somehow that got lost resulting in a high percentage of kids that were not able to read or do basic math. We need a renewed effort to teach history, not revisionist history, but true American History, warts and all. The lack of knowledge of history and awareness of what is happening in the world today among young people is appalling. We used to have “Current Events” each week along with Social Studies and Government. There is no way we can raise kids to be responsible citzens without these fundamentals.
I believe the goal of the Left has been to produce a society of dumbed down, maleable masses. We have to take control of education back NOW! No more Common Core. No more Federal Funds and Federal Standards. Local Control and each state adopts Standards of Performance.
Many years ago I traveled to Italy with a friend. During that trip, we stopped to visit my friend’s aunt, who was Mother General of an order of Catholic sisters. Mother showed us around the convent and adjoining school and we had an opportunity to compare education in both of our countries. Mother told us about “compulsories” — oral and written tests administered by the state at the end of the school year. You could do well all year, but if you failed the compulsories, you did not pass to the next grade. Furthermore, if it was determined that a high percentage of students from a particular school failed the compulsories, the school would be investigated by the state and where warranted, remedies would be implemented or some punishment administered. Mother spoke of a school that was so bad, it was shut down.
That’s what we need here.