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Reagan left office in 1989, over 25 years ago. You're going to tell us in 13 years of D admins (Clinton, Obama) they could not lift a finger to reverse whatever it was you think Reagan did 25 years ago? Actually more--IIRC 'Nation at Risk' came out during his first term.
Education is controlled lock stock and barrel by liberalism, as evidenced by the fact that teachers' unions donate in the vicinity of 95% to Democrats. Maybe it's time for liberals to take responsibility for their failure, and for having squandered so much money for so little results. We spend more per pupil on K-12 than any nation save Switzerland, and get mediocre results.
What about Dubya's No Child Left? That was one of the worse things that happened to eduction in this country in a long time. Basically, schools are judged on how well students can take a test. So, curriculum just focuses on those tests and not on actually TEACHING students.
What about Dubya's No Child Left? That was one of the worse things that happened to eduction in this country in a long time. Basically, schools are judged on how well students can take a test. So, curriculum just focuses on those tests and not on actually TEACHING students.
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Publik school children have always been tested. Nothing new about NCLB.
What needs to be done is change the property tax system, where right now taxes are assessed not on your ability to pay, and not on the services you consume. Right now, a family of four with a lower value house in consuming more resources, yet not paying as much for them, as a single guy in a higher value house. Change this system and it might quell the debate over vouchers, etc.
James Tooley, Pauline Dixon, and other researchers discovered a vast underground economy of parent-funded non-government schools in the developing world, which educate 50-80% of students in some of the world's poorest provinces. They also documented that government's "free" schools actually crowd out better free-market alternatives, a fact which comes as no surprise to E.G. West and Andrew J. Coulson, who discovered similar effects in Great Britain and in early America.
James Tooley, The Beautiful Tree
Andrew J. Coulson, Market Education: The Unknown History
Get rid of public schools and all the voucher "controversy" is gone.
if i thought that private schools were inherently better than public schools, then i'd agree with the whole school choice thing.
but they aren't inherently better. they're better because they're filled with well-raised children from wealthy backgrounds, with educated parents, who are very heavily involved in their childrens' educations. That kind of educational environment cannot be replicated simply by throwing public money at a group of middle class or poor kids.
Exactly, they also choose who attends their school. The key to a good education is parent involvement
Yes I do
The hell that u created called k12 will soon come to an end
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