PoliticalChic
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....education died.
1.When I was reading posts this morn, I came upon the name of one of my heroes…“E. D. Hirsch wrote a great article for the WSJ last week on how the school systems ruined the country.” Critical Race Theory.
2. If you are interested in the education of our children, and the reason that it has ceased, the two men that need be studies are E.D. Hirsch, whose methods and views produced an amazing educational success, known as the Massachusetts Miracle, and another man, Marxist Paolo Friere who believes believed that indoctrination for communism and in opposition to capitalism, is the purpose of government schooling.
Sadly, it is the latter whose views are dominant in education.
3. I found two recent articles about Hirsch, truly an embarrassment of riches.
“Is American Teaching Doing What It Ought?
E.D. Hirsch is absolutely correct when he states: “If you want equity in education, as well as excellence, you have to have whole-class instruction in which a teacher directly communicates information.”
Opinion | Is American Teaching Doing What It Ought?
and
“Bad Teaching Is Tearing America Apart
Education’s dumbing down frays the bonds of citizenship and is hardest on the poor, says E.D. Hirsch, the man who wrote the book on cultural literacy.”
4. For the necessary context, Friere, the darling of ed schools, doesn’t endorse teaching actual factual content. “The pedagogical point of Freire’s thesis : its opposition to taxing students with any actual academic content, which Freire derides as “official knowledge” that serves to rationalize inequality within capitalist society. One of Freire’s most widely quoted metaphors dismisses teacher-directed instruction as a misguided “banking concept,” … Freire proposes instead that teachers partner with their coequals, the students, in a “dialogic” and “problem-solving” process until the roles of teacher and student merge into “teacher-students” and “student-teachers.” Pedagogy of the Oppressor
5. Now for Hirsch’s view: Real education involves discipline, and accountability....both from students and teachers.
The student must have a base of knowledge. "Hirsch was also convinced that the problem of inadequate background knowledge began in the early grades. Elementary school teachers thus had to be more explicit about imparting such knowledge to students—indeed, this was even more important than teaching the “skills” of reading and writing, Hirsch believed. Hirsch’s insight contravened the conventional wisdom in the nation’s education schools: that teaching facts was unimportant, and that students instead should learn “how to” skills. …expanded the argument in a 1983 article, titled “Cultural Literacy,” in The American Scholar." E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy
Here's proof it works:
The “Massachusetts miracle,” in which Bay State students’ soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature’s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch’s legacy.
Unless our system can be wrested from Friere and returned to Hirsch, America is doomed.
1.When I was reading posts this morn, I came upon the name of one of my heroes…“E. D. Hirsch wrote a great article for the WSJ last week on how the school systems ruined the country.” Critical Race Theory.
2. If you are interested in the education of our children, and the reason that it has ceased, the two men that need be studies are E.D. Hirsch, whose methods and views produced an amazing educational success, known as the Massachusetts Miracle, and another man, Marxist Paolo Friere who believes believed that indoctrination for communism and in opposition to capitalism, is the purpose of government schooling.
Sadly, it is the latter whose views are dominant in education.
3. I found two recent articles about Hirsch, truly an embarrassment of riches.
“Is American Teaching Doing What It Ought?
E.D. Hirsch is absolutely correct when he states: “If you want equity in education, as well as excellence, you have to have whole-class instruction in which a teacher directly communicates information.”
Opinion | Is American Teaching Doing What It Ought?
and
“Bad Teaching Is Tearing America Apart
Education’s dumbing down frays the bonds of citizenship and is hardest on the poor, says E.D. Hirsch, the man who wrote the book on cultural literacy.”
Opinion | Bad Teaching Is Tearing America Apart
Education’s dumbing down frays the bonds of citizenship and is hardest on the poor, says E.D. Hirsch, the man who wrote the book on cultural literacy.
www.wsj.com
4. For the necessary context, Friere, the darling of ed schools, doesn’t endorse teaching actual factual content. “The pedagogical point of Freire’s thesis : its opposition to taxing students with any actual academic content, which Freire derides as “official knowledge” that serves to rationalize inequality within capitalist society. One of Freire’s most widely quoted metaphors dismisses teacher-directed instruction as a misguided “banking concept,” … Freire proposes instead that teachers partner with their coequals, the students, in a “dialogic” and “problem-solving” process until the roles of teacher and student merge into “teacher-students” and “student-teachers.” Pedagogy of the Oppressor
5. Now for Hirsch’s view: Real education involves discipline, and accountability....both from students and teachers.
The student must have a base of knowledge. "Hirsch was also convinced that the problem of inadequate background knowledge began in the early grades. Elementary school teachers thus had to be more explicit about imparting such knowledge to students—indeed, this was even more important than teaching the “skills” of reading and writing, Hirsch believed. Hirsch’s insight contravened the conventional wisdom in the nation’s education schools: that teaching facts was unimportant, and that students instead should learn “how to” skills. …expanded the argument in a 1983 article, titled “Cultural Literacy,” in The American Scholar." E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy
Here's proof it works:
The “Massachusetts miracle,” in which Bay State students’ soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature’s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch’s legacy.
Unless our system can be wrested from Friere and returned to Hirsch, America is doomed.