Friday, May 17, 2019

The History and Results of America's Disastrous Public School System - Foundation for Economic Education

The History and Results of America's Disastrous Public School System - Foundation for Economic Education:
"...While it’s almost universally understood that the American school system is underperforming, “reform,” too, is almost universally prescribed as the solution.
See the source imageYet in other walks of life, bad ideas are not reformed—they are eliminated and replaced with better ones. 
Our school system is rarely identified as a bad idea.
The motivations at the origins were not pure; they were never to educate but to nationalize the youth in a particular mold.
The system is reflexively left alone while the methods are the bad ideas that get cycled in and out: open concept schools, multiple intelligences, project-based learning, universal design for learning, merit-based pay, vouchers, charters, and most recently, educational neuroscience.
Every decade or so we are told by the pedagogic experts that they have found an answer to our school’s problems..."
Read on.

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