During the postwar years US public schools (both high school and college) were the envy of the world.
The US had the most educated workforce in the world.
Problem is, those great public schools came with a high tax burden. After Reagan's historic tax cuts, there was less tax money for education. So the Right waged a war against public education and teachers, and they eventually starved it to death. They did this in order to preserve the gains of the new aristocracy created by Reaganomics, especially those that benefited from the globalization of production, allowing them to ship jobs to cheap labor markets.
Now they wonder why our students can't compete effectively for tech jobs.
The Reagan Revolution replaced a well-educated middle class with a horde of impoverished low wage workers. It turned our thriving postwar public sphere into a neoliberal dystopia where corporations own government and talk radio perpetually agitates the serfs with images of gay communist Islamo doom.
I remember when the Republican Party started to wage war on our education system. It felt like a body that turned against one its internal organs. I thought to myself: "are we really going to destroy something as vital to national prosperity as education just to preserve the tax cuts of those born wealthy?"
America swallowed poison in 1980.
"So the Right waged a war against public education and teachers, and they eventually starved it to death."
This is truly one of your most stupid of posts.
The only explanation for this opus is that you simply tossed the Scrabble tiles, and copied each word as it appeared.
There you go again PC. You can't formulate an answer even though you consider yourself brilliant, so you just insult. Londoner is correct. You were maybe in grade school when reagan took over so maybe you don't know the greatness of America before reagan.
What makes you think I can't be brilliant, and insult you?
Watch this:
Now...before I send you back to the last seat in the dumb row, take out a pencil and paper....oh- you forgot one again?
OK....I'll lend you one.
First....it was Carter who created the Department of Education to gain Liberal votes.....'education' was turned over to Liberal educrats.....that presaged the end of learning....e.g., production of students like you.
Second...Start taking notes:
Education is about learning and requires effort and working day after day, and some people are better learners than others because some people are smarter than others. Best not let progressives hear that;
progressives will insist that all are equal, and thinking otherwise is biased!
Their mantra is that education must be comforting, nurturing, and never discouraging.
a.
Red pens for marking are harsh, while purple is soothing.
“In a show of educational Kumbaya-ism not seen since English became Language Arts and self-esteem replaced “go to the principal’s office” as the Mantra of Discipline, teachers are dumping their red pens faster than plans for Gigli II and grading students’ papers using purple ones. They say they’re doing this because purple’s “not as scary,” “friendlier,” and “goes better with their new fall outfits.”
Grading with purple pens
b. Progressive Education aims to
“level the playing field.” Translation: “lower the standards.” Everyone’s work goes up on the walls because it’s not fair to judge a child’s work as there are no wrong answers, only life experiences.
‘Lost in all the chanting for change is the core commitment to impart actual
knowledge. For progressives in the Age of Obama, setting high academic standards is secondary to the self-improvement of the "whole child" and
"service" to the cause of social justice.’ The Three R's in the Age of Obama: Rappin', Revolution and Radicalism - Michelle Malkin - Page 2
c. “Progressive Education is straight out of John Dewey's work. It's no accident that
Dewey was one of the major inventors of both Progressive education and modern liberal Fascism. He was one of the triad that invented Pragmatism. (He called his version Instrumentalism.) He was also a social democrat and a proponent of doing away with classical education. All of these are intricately linked. Pragmatism essentially teaches that there are no eternal truths, because there are no objective natural laws. Everything is in Heraclitean flux, forever shifting.
All we can do is arrive at a social consensus of what is true. That view prepares the field for the educational agenda that Dewey advocated, one in which it would no longer consist of memorizing "dry facts" and performing boring cogitation with them. Instead, not just the child's mind but the "whole child" would be taught, chiefly by "socializing" him. I.e. what counts is not objective reality and what it requires of us to create values, but whatever others think is true and worthwhile. The political consequences are all around us.
Progressives are the consistent practitioners of what the Left has been preaching for three generations:
social subjectivism, collectivism, and statism. “
Shaving Leviathan: Dewey to Obama: Progressive Education and Politics
d. “The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.” John Dewey
http://peopleforprogressiveeducation.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/dewey-what-the-school-is/
e.
Competition is unhealthy. Grades are hurtful. Freedom over structure, and empathy over narrative.
“Generations of children have been let down by so-called progressive education policies which have taught skills and "empathy" instead of bodies of knowledge, the shadow education secretary, Michael Gove, said yesterday.
A Conservative government would reinstate traditional styles of fact-based lessons, he told teachers at a conference at Brighton College in Sussex yesterday. It privileges temporary relevance over a permanent body of knowledge which should be passed on from generation to generation ..”
Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories | Education | The Guardian
So, you see, Liberalism is one of the reasons that you are as dumb as you are.
The other is far too personal to go into here without hurting your widdle feelings.
