A lot of strange decisions have been made lately at the local, state and federal levels. Perhaps this quote will shed a little light on the subject.
"(...) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought." P.B. Medawar
Does this sound like anyone you know?
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Oh... is that why those with no analytical thought came up with, and perpetuate, one of the worst laws known to mankind - the No Child Left Behind Act? The irony is that NCLB emphasizes evaluating learning with test scores in math and science. It was clear in Obama's State of the Union address that the administration is set on steamrolling that piece of crap legislation through at least the next three years. I don't know of one educator who likes it. It is a machine to waste money on book and test publishers and to waste money on school administration. Each state is left on its own to waste money in their own way. California is at the bottom of the steaming heap.
Well put, Dino.
What is the solution to the obvious "education problem" in which this country this country finds itself in mired?
Bert
No more band-aid approaches... total reform needs to happen. We can start by ending the NCLB Act.
The best way to reduce the achievement gap is to reduce all class sizes. This can't happen until money can be free from administrative plundering.
One specific solution is to consolidate testing... for high school, one test per year that will satisfy STAR testing, the High School exit exam (which is ridiculous), SAT and possibly the GED (although not familiar enough with this to know if it's possible).
Total reform needs to happen at all levels. There needs to be an inversion of the tax pyramid. Local governments (esp. schools) need to be fully funded first, then the state, then feds. The federal government is way too big. It is grotesquely too big.
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