Fix public education

In other words, if only 20 percent of our children receive the education needed, then 80 percent of our children will not be adequately prepared for the world in which they will live. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by H. Bryan Brooksbank - May 7, 2009 - 9:53 AM PDT
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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - May. 7, 2009

A thoughtfully written opinion piece which not only outlines specifics on how to reform education, but also offers the context to understanding how crucial this reform is. Extremely compelling and insightful.

Our present education system is obsolete and it has become increasingly obsolete as decades have passed. Because we are failing so many of our children, we are creating an ... More »

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Glenn LaBauve
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by Glenn LaBauve - May. 7, 2009

A former school board president takes a good look at what is wrong with the present system and actually provides some workable solutions.

In the 1980s when Texas reformed our education system, we forced out a large number of highly valued teachers because they did not have the proper creditial. Almost all of them were in the vocatioal arts, these programs suffered and many were eliminated as unqualified teachers with credentials drove away the students. The irony of this was that only few years earlier, the state had gone through am expert certification program where an industry expert could be certified to teach ... More »

I believe public schools are the most important institutions in our society. Being educated is essential for a productive life and it is also essential for the preservation ... More »

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Andrew Van Camp
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by Andrew Van Camp - May. 10, 2009

The article provides some insight, but only scratches the surface on the challenge facing universal education. We are aimless in our approach to solution. The plan called “Engineered Paradigm Expulsion in American Education” promotes a realistic and comprehensive resolution of the difficulties plaguing our schools.

The consequences of our continued failure to educate generation after generation may be much more severe than any of us imagine.

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Roger Powelson
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by Roger Powelson - May. 8, 2009

This struck me as a thoughtful attempt to fix what's wrong with American education with out any of the usual jargon, except for the obligatory union bashing.

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Robert B. Elliott
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by Robert B. Elliott - May. 8, 2009

This is as good as we ordinarily see in newspaper coverage. The article is honest in its portrayal of the state of schooling and the ideas are a bit more imaginative than the standard treatment provides. BUT, no one is actually talking about the fundamental cause of our grand malaise. We made a massive wrong turn with compulsory schooling and there is simply no fix for an inherently flawed approach that is misanthropic in so many ways that I wouldn't even begin to try to delineate the ways here.

As stated above, it is a delusion to hope that there is some kind of fix for compulsory schooling after well over a century of phenomenal failures - yes, I know, we put a man on the freaking moon - and your point is? There is a wealth of great literature on this topic, beginning with Tolstoy's essays on education, which is reflexively ignored by the media, because the myths are too hard to overcome and one has to actually study and think and accept the hard realities of facing the ... More »

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