From an article at https://1819news.com/culture/jeff-minick-some-old-school-ideas-that-worked Recently I bumbled into the 1962 Spotlight, the yearbook for Boonville High School in Piedmont, N.C. I was in fifth grade that year, and the elementary school, which was on the same property and ran from first through eighth grade, was included in the album. My perusal left me a bit thunderstruck thanks to the differences between then and now. Integration and Consolidation Schools in the South were still segregated that year. Boonville’s black school was no more than a mile or two from ours. Desegregation would begin within three years. Schools in Yadkin County were not yet … [Read more...]
“Stupid In America” Turns 20
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stupid-america-turns-20 Tylder Durden writes.... In January 2006, ABC’s John Stossel’s brutally honest documentary, “Stupid in America,” first aired. At the time, he referred to it as “a nasty title for a program about public education, but some nasty things are going on in America’s public schools, and it’s about time we face up to it.” Stossel exposed the ineffectiveness of many government-run schools. But now, 20 years later, things are even worse. Test scores from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), released this year, show that 33% of 8th graders—a higher percentage than ever—are reading at the “below basic” … [Read more...]
Why Education is the ‘Fraud of the Age’
From Intellectual Takeout. https://intellectualtakeout.org/2018/08/why-education-is-the-fraud-of-the-age/ There’s always something thrilling about the start of a new school year or semester. New clothes to wear. Fresh books to explore. New teachers to meet. It’s all become a part of what we call back-to-school and the education experience. Of course, many of us will quickly agree that the new books and clothes aren’t really what matter. It is the ideas we learn and the schooling we get that make the real difference both in the present and in the future. But what if that schooling isn’t as wonderful as we’ve thought? Given stagnating test scores, the decline of thinking, and the rise … [Read more...]
America’s Destructive Education System
From The American Thinker by Alexander Markovsky Dec 8, 2024 In 1983, the Reagan administration published a report titled “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative of Education Reform.” The report warned that the decay of American schools was threatening the country’s very survival. But the powerful amalgamation of teachers’ unions, state bureaucracies, and the Democrat establishment defeated the initiative. Committed to preserving the status quo, this special interest group became the guardian of American education, maintaining complete control of the education curriculum and using its position to subvert innovation in education. No surprise, this group enjoys the systematic support of the … [Read more...]
Revamping education? We can only hope
Today's article comes from Patrice Lewis via World Net Dailey It's time to completely re-think k-12 education in the United States. The only way that will happen is if parents demand it. When he was a child, my husband's nickname was "Sputnik." That's because he was born the day after the famous Russian satellite was successfully launched in 1957. That historical moment spurred more than just a childish moniker for a young boy. It also spurred the so-called Space Race, a "symbol of the broad ideological and political contest between two rival world powers," in the words of the National Air and Space Museum. It also spurred a change in our public education system. Concerned … [Read more...]
A New Operating System for K–12 Education
This article was published at American Thinker. Kevin Finn is the author. It will take about 5 minutes to read. Teaching is an art as much as it may be a science. I liken it to conducting an orchestra. Just as the conductor leads his orchestra, the teacher guides his class. The conductor ensures that each musician is playing at the right tempo and volume, and the teacher ensures that each student is on task and contributing to the best of his abilities. Different conductors will lead their orchestras to perform the same piece of music in slightly different ways just as different teachers will teach the same subject in slightly different ways. Unlike orchestras, where each … [Read more...]
Make Education Great Again!
The article was published at Real Clear Wire. By Adam Ellwanger Imagine these words as the first speech delivered by the incoming Secretary of Education. Today, I am here to deliver bitter medicine: American education has failed. Teachers and parents, administrators and government—and even students—all bear some responsibility. The most common explanations for our educational crisis are inadequate funding, overuse of standardized testing, and systemic prejudice. They are false. Our schools do not lack funding—no country spends more on public education. The poor results of standardized tests indicate our failures; they are not the cause. Our schools are not … [Read more...]
New report: Illegals are drastically altering the landscape of public schools
Original article at American Thinker Data doesn’t lie, and illegal alien minors are drastically altering the landscape of the public schools in Chicago. According to an in-depth analysis published at Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization with a stated mission to report on America’s school system, particularly the way it impacts those who have “historically lacked access to a quality education,” the demographics of the Chicago public schools is rapidly changing, and I’d argue, not for the better. While the number of (alien) Hispanic students skyrockets, blacks rapidly diminish. Where once there were experienced educators, now there are progressive activists, translators, and … [Read more...]
Children Of Big Brother: What It Means To Go Back-To-School In The American Police State
Today's article comes to us from The Rutherford Institute written by John & Nisha Whitehead. Please click on the link to go directly to the website “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved. Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions … [Read more...]
America’s Destructive Education System
Todays article was published in December 2023 at The American Thinker and written by By Alexander G. Markovsky. It will take you about 3 minutes to read. Food for thought. In 1983, the Reagan administration published a report titled “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative of Education Reform.” The report warned that the decay of American schools was threatening the country’s very survival. But the powerful amalgamation of teachers’ unions, state bureaucracies, and the Democrat establishment defeated the initiative. Committed to preserving the status quo, this special interest group became the guardian of American education, maintaining complete control of the education curriculum and using … [Read more...]
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