Test scores are plummeting, learning gaps are widening, and billions spent on federal education reforms have delivered nothing but failure. It’s time to DOGE.
Behind all the foolishness are attempts to reduce the "achievement gap", as shown on one of your graphs. Those attempts have been going on since the sixties. They brought us "new math" in the sixties and non phonic based (look-say) reading that tanked reading scores. When I was in grade school in the 70s, I wondered why our math books were so old and worn - from the 50s. Later I realized that the schools refused to use the "new math" ones that were in fashion.
Then George W. Bush decided to impose "No Child Left Behind" on the country. It was insane on its face. Every single kid would have to be tested, and each possible subset of kids would have to meet benchmarks that would increase each year. If I remember right, by 2013 100% of kids would have be proficient at these tests, or the school district would be punished. These subsets included English Language Learners, all racial breakdowns, kids who were poor, kids with various disabilities. They would allow the districts to exclude 1% (!) of kids with cognitive impairments.
As the percentage of kids needing to pass these tests continued to increase (this was after GW Bush was out of office), "waivers" were allowed for states that had rigorous alternatives. Needless to say, all the states were on waivers well before 2013.
Some say the whole plane was a Trojan Horse designed to force states to implement school vouchers. I don't know - I didn't see signs of that. Mostly it just seems he was an idiot liberal, or influenced by an idiot liberal. This is the same guy that started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with the idea that democracies of the same type enjoyed by Western Europe and the Anglosphere could be replicated anywhere.
Yes, the facts that different races have different average IQs and different religions can lead to different social mores are ugly facts. But they are facts, and ignoring them is leading to civilizational suicide.
The Federal Government, the teachers' unions, teaching colleges, Bill Gates and all the rest must go. It will begin with a dismantling of the Dept. of Education and continue from there. Many states are approving school choice; the bane of the one size fits all Democrats and Unions. That's another step. Will all the new schools and choices be great, no, of course not but now we are making even the great mediocre, that is not progress, although it might be egalitarian. If none of us learn anything then we'll all be equal.
So not only is Bill Gates a medical expert he is also an educational expert. With great results!!!
Right? In contrast and with no hesitancy, we are to believe that Trump’s billionaire isn’t an expert on anything except being a billionaire.
There is no moral consistency.
not all billionaires are equal!
Behind all the foolishness are attempts to reduce the "achievement gap", as shown on one of your graphs. Those attempts have been going on since the sixties. They brought us "new math" in the sixties and non phonic based (look-say) reading that tanked reading scores. When I was in grade school in the 70s, I wondered why our math books were so old and worn - from the 50s. Later I realized that the schools refused to use the "new math" ones that were in fashion.
Then George W. Bush decided to impose "No Child Left Behind" on the country. It was insane on its face. Every single kid would have to be tested, and each possible subset of kids would have to meet benchmarks that would increase each year. If I remember right, by 2013 100% of kids would have be proficient at these tests, or the school district would be punished. These subsets included English Language Learners, all racial breakdowns, kids who were poor, kids with various disabilities. They would allow the districts to exclude 1% (!) of kids with cognitive impairments.
As the percentage of kids needing to pass these tests continued to increase (this was after GW Bush was out of office), "waivers" were allowed for states that had rigorous alternatives. Needless to say, all the states were on waivers well before 2013.
Some say the whole plane was a Trojan Horse designed to force states to implement school vouchers. I don't know - I didn't see signs of that. Mostly it just seems he was an idiot liberal, or influenced by an idiot liberal. This is the same guy that started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with the idea that democracies of the same type enjoyed by Western Europe and the Anglosphere could be replicated anywhere.
Yes, the facts that different races have different average IQs and different religions can lead to different social mores are ugly facts. But they are facts, and ignoring them is leading to civilizational suicide.
Is there any more connection to led,vaccines, or prescription meds.
I know there is always talk but I’m looking for any good read on this.
Thank you.
The Federal Government, the teachers' unions, teaching colleges, Bill Gates and all the rest must go. It will begin with a dismantling of the Dept. of Education and continue from there. Many states are approving school choice; the bane of the one size fits all Democrats and Unions. That's another step. Will all the new schools and choices be great, no, of course not but now we are making even the great mediocre, that is not progress, although it might be egalitarian. If none of us learn anything then we'll all be equal.