Two Decades of Mediocrity - America's public schools: Still risky after all these years

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Here are links to various education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)
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A couple of clues [re: why our education system is failing]
Source: TownHall.com; Published: May 1, 2003; Author: Thomas Sowell
'HOOKY' TEACHERS WORSE THAN KIDS
Source: NY POST; Published: April 28, 2003; Author: Carl Campanile
Report: Uh, it's like student writing is bad
Source: CNN; Published: April 25, 2003; Author: AP
Demoralized Teachers, Unruly Students, Bureaucracy Top Concerns About Schools
Source: AP Breaking; Published : April 23, 2003; Author: Siobhan McDonough
Red Pencils, Low Marks - How the diversity industry dumbs down American education
Source: WSJ Opinion Journal.com; Published: April 22, 2003; Author: Gary Rosen
Left High and Dry
Source:Lew Rockwell; Published: April 21, 2003; Author: Linda Schrock
Teaching Tomorrow's Teachers: Instructor To The Trustafarian Class
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: April 11, 2003; Author:| Bernard Chapin
How Not to Teach Math
Source: City Journal; Published: 7 March 2003; Author: Matthew Clavel
Government Schools Have U.S. On The Fast Track To Third-World Status
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: March 6, 2003; Author: Bob Ellis
Sodom and Gomorrah University
Source: WorldNetDaily.com: Published: February 19, 2003; Author: Michelle Malkin
The Union That Killed Education
Source: newsmax.com; Published: February. 17, 2003; Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Walter E. Williams: Inferior Education of Black Americans
Source:CNSNews.com; Published: February 05, 2003; Author: Walter E. Williams
Union Fraud Underscores Need for School Vouchers
Source: CNSNEWS.com; Published: February 05, 2003; Author: Linda Chavez
Time for public schools to throw in the towel?
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 27, 2003; Author: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
My Classroom From Hell
Source: The Wall Street Journal; Published: January 24, 2003; Author: Joshua Kaplowitz
Can more money make schools better?
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 21, 2003; Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Are public schools constitutional?
Source: NewsWithViews; Published: JANUARY 20, 2003; Auythor: Lynn M. Stuter
The intellectual rape of Oakland's schools
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 17, 2003; Author: David Horowitz
Hip-hop hogwash in the schools (Michelle Malkin)
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 15, 2003; Author: Michelle Malkin
Dumbed Down and Dumber Still
Source: The American Prowler; Published: January 15, 2003; Author: By George Neumayr
Washington's education establishment
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 8, 2003; Author:Walter Williams
NEA Hastens Death of American Education
Source: INSIGHT magazine; Published: January 6, 2003; Author: Ralph de Toledano
White Teachers Fleeing Black Schools
Source: Newsmax; Published:January 1, 2003; Author: Chad Roedemeier
Fiddling whilst Rome burns
Source: TownHall.com; Published: December 26, 2002; Author: Walter Williams
Government School Monopolies Leave Children Behind
Source: Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; Published: December 4, 2002; Author: Clint Green
The silence of the lambs: McMillan blasts bureaucrats for destroying public education
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: August 15, 2002; Author: Craige McMillan
Taking Charge: Let's Stop Aiding and Abetting Academicians' Folly
Source: HOME EDUCATION magazine; Published: July-August 2002; Author: Larry and Susan Kaseman
’Open Directory’ --Society/Issues/Education/Education_Reform
Deconstructing Public Education
Source: www.newsmax.com; Published: July 26, 2002; Author: Diane Alden
Specious Science In Our Schools
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: July 9, 2002; Author: Alan Caruba
SYMPOSIUM Q: Is the National Education Association Being Fair to Its Religious Objectors?
Source: INSIGHT magazine; Published: June 10, 2002; Authors NO: Stefan Gleason ////\\\\ YES: Bob Chase
Public Sector Subverting Productive Industry
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: May 16, 2002; Author: Henry Pelifian
History of America's Education Part 2: Noah Webster and Early America
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 27, 2002; Author: April Shenandoah
How Communist is Public Education?
Source: sierratimes.com; Published:March 22, 2002; Author: Chuck Morse
History of America's Education Part 1: Johnny is in trouble
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 20, 2002; Author: April Shenandoah
Audit rips Georgia schools' curriculum
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Published: March 11, 2002; Author:JAMES SALZER
Why schools fail: Samuel Blumenfeld warns Bush's education legislation is ineffective
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: March 2, 2002; Author: Samuel Blumenfeld
Public School Isn't Like I Remember It
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002; Author: Phyllis Schlafly
What Is Lacking In Our Educational System
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002; Author: Ben Cerruti
The charade of education reform
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: February 2, 2002; Author: Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
American public schools: Working just as designed
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 21, 2002; Author: Vox Day
High Schools Fail Thanks To Grade Inflation And Social Promotion
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: December 5, 2001; Author: Vin Suprynowicz
WHY AMERICANS CAN’T READ
Source: Accuracy in Media; Published: December 4, 2001; Author: Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid
The Failing Teacher and the Teachers' Code of Silence
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: December 3, 2001; Author: Glenn Sacks
Time for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: November 27, 2001; Author: Linda Bowles
Illiterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001; Author: Samuel Blumenfeld
NEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001; Author: Linda Harvey
COOKING THE BOOKS AT EDUCATION
Source: Accuracy In Media; Published: June 5, 2001; Author: Cliff Kincaid
Why Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001; Author: Thomas Sowell
The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm; Author: John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: February 21, 2001; Author: John Leo
Free Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001; Author: Various
Are children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001; Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}
Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000; Author: Vin Suprynowicz
New Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000; Author: William H. Wild
Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999; Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education
Source: www.petersnet; Published: Winter 1997; Author: Frank Morriss

Littleton Crisis to Government Control
The UN Plan for Your Mental Health

Lexington Institute

NonPartisan Action For a Better Redding

Quality of Education Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews

educational reform bump

no no no!!!

Its very plain that notwithstanding the trillions of $$$ shovelled into that black hole called 'public education' that its not about education at all.

Firstly its about the liberal govt control over your kids so that they can brainwash any conservative judeo-christian values outta them and transform them into mindless non-thinking bodies that can only digest the 10 seconds sound-bites from NPR/CNN/MSNBC/AOL/TIMEWARNER/NEWSWEAK etc media and therefore have the mindless masses accept their liberal agandas.

Secondly, its to fatten up the pockets of the teachers union NEA and their cronies.

Eighty seven percent of a child's time is spent at home, and thirteen percent is spent in school. Church represents one percent inserted amongst the two. Guess what has greater influence on a child's value and moral character - HOME. School plays a role in advocating values, but a strong home and parent can negate those values. Asian Americans immigrants live in cities, and most attend public schools who advocate liberal values. When these kids go home they are re-educated to traditional values by their parents. Many grow up, have a good work, and educational ethos, and above all maintain a conservative family oriented value system. Many problems can be blamed on public education, but parents or the lack of parenting plays a major part.

What you say may be true as far as it goes, but it distracts from an important point. Government schools are harmful to students and to society. Perhaps they are not the most harmful element -- perhaps dysfuntional families win that prize. But the fact remains that schools ought to have a net beneficial effect on students and society. Government schools cause damage.

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The fundamental fallacy, both in the lead article and in the philosophy dominating public education today, is that the problem must be addressed through basic systematic changes. In fact, the problem but reflects the educational aptitudes and motivation of the students, who are subjected to the system. A major factor in the fall of public education has been the Welfare State, which has increased the birth rate among those with low academic aptitudes, while reducing the birth rate among the middle and affluent classes.

On the other hand, while a good teacher can, in fact, increase the motivational level of the student; he can only do so by addressing each student as an individual. The macro schemes can waste a lot of money; they will never have more than a trivial effect on the problem.

The best course would be to get education back to a neighborhood concern, supportive of the immediate needs of the families in a neighborhood, where the rapport between student and teacher would be the priority. A student motivated to learn can learn in a one room shack, with access to a good neighborhood library. A student with neither good aptitudes nor motivation, is not going to learn if you send him to school in a palace, seated on velvet cushions and surrounded by the most modern educational aids.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site