Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist theoretician and founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy.
Gramschi’s motto is that of liberals today: “that all life is "political."
Everything is political. Everything....including the instruction given to our children.
Since the education industry in America has been captured by one political perspective, the Liberal/Progressive, the result has been catastrophic.
Since they have taken charge:
1. ".... a teacher could no longer line up children’s desks in rows facing him; indeed, he found himself banished entirely from the front of the classroom, becoming a “guide on the side” instead of a “sage on the stage.” [In] elementary school, students in the early grades had no desks at all but instead sat in circles on a rug, hoping to re-create the “natural” environment that education progressives believed would facilitate learning. In the 1970s and 1980s, progressive education also absorbed the trendy new doctrines of multiculturalism, postmodernism (with its dogma that objective facts don’t exist), and social-justice teaching."
E. D. Hirsch s Curriculum for Democracy by Sol Stern City Journal Autumn 2009
2. In 1989, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the chief professional organization for mathematics educators and education faculty, issued Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. The document presented standards for grades K–12, including algebra. The underlying goals of the standards—never made clear to the general public—were social, not academic.
Some of the report’s authors, for example, sought to make mathematics “accessible” to low-achieving students, yet meant by this not, say, recruiting more talented undergraduates into teaching but instead the employment of trendy, though empirically unsupported, pedagogical and organizational methods that essentially dumb down math content.
Math educators proclaimed a brand-new objective—conveniently indefinable and immeasurable—called “deep conceptual understanding…. As Alan Schoenfeld, the lead author of the high school standards in the 1989 NCTM report, put it, “the traditional curriculum was a vehicle for . . . the perpetuation of privilege. The progressive educators, by contrast, support “integrated” approaches to teaching math—that is, teaching topics from all areas of mathematics every year, regardless of logical sequence and student mastery of each step—and they downplay basic arithmetic skills and practice, encouraging kids to use calculators from kindergarten on. ….”
Who Needs Mathematicians for Math Anyway by Sandra Stotsky City Journal 13 November 2009
3. "School Bans Teachers From Using Red Ink Because It’s Too Mean
.... teachers have been instructed not to grade papers in red pen because it is a “very negative color,” vice principal Jennie Hick told theDaily Mail. Green was suggested instead for corrections ...." U.K. School Bans Red Ink for Corrections Because It s Too Mean
As though it weren't enough that the Obama error....er, era, ....proved the fallacy of Liberal governance, now there is proof that John Dewey/Liberal education policies are just as much hokum.
Gramschi’s motto is that of liberals today: “that all life is "political."
Everything is political. Everything....including the instruction given to our children.
Since the education industry in America has been captured by one political perspective, the Liberal/Progressive, the result has been catastrophic.
Since they have taken charge:
1. ".... a teacher could no longer line up children’s desks in rows facing him; indeed, he found himself banished entirely from the front of the classroom, becoming a “guide on the side” instead of a “sage on the stage.” [In] elementary school, students in the early grades had no desks at all but instead sat in circles on a rug, hoping to re-create the “natural” environment that education progressives believed would facilitate learning. In the 1970s and 1980s, progressive education also absorbed the trendy new doctrines of multiculturalism, postmodernism (with its dogma that objective facts don’t exist), and social-justice teaching."
E. D. Hirsch s Curriculum for Democracy by Sol Stern City Journal Autumn 2009
2. In 1989, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the chief professional organization for mathematics educators and education faculty, issued Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. The document presented standards for grades K–12, including algebra. The underlying goals of the standards—never made clear to the general public—were social, not academic.
Some of the report’s authors, for example, sought to make mathematics “accessible” to low-achieving students, yet meant by this not, say, recruiting more talented undergraduates into teaching but instead the employment of trendy, though empirically unsupported, pedagogical and organizational methods that essentially dumb down math content.
Math educators proclaimed a brand-new objective—conveniently indefinable and immeasurable—called “deep conceptual understanding…. As Alan Schoenfeld, the lead author of the high school standards in the 1989 NCTM report, put it, “the traditional curriculum was a vehicle for . . . the perpetuation of privilege. The progressive educators, by contrast, support “integrated” approaches to teaching math—that is, teaching topics from all areas of mathematics every year, regardless of logical sequence and student mastery of each step—and they downplay basic arithmetic skills and practice, encouraging kids to use calculators from kindergarten on. ….”
Who Needs Mathematicians for Math Anyway by Sandra Stotsky City Journal 13 November 2009
3. "School Bans Teachers From Using Red Ink Because It’s Too Mean
.... teachers have been instructed not to grade papers in red pen because it is a “very negative color,” vice principal Jennie Hick told theDaily Mail. Green was suggested instead for corrections ...." U.K. School Bans Red Ink for Corrections Because It s Too Mean
As though it weren't enough that the Obama error....er, era, ....proved the fallacy of Liberal governance, now there is proof that John Dewey/Liberal education policies are just as much hokum.
