American education is rapidly getting worse.
Much worse.
An outcome of “Everyone is a winner” Teacher’s Union mantra.
Bloggers.
Mostly bloggers.
Universities now have vanity grading.
The average grade at Harvard is A-.
Colleges also allow students to rate the professors. Those not handing out good grades get slammed and might not be asked to return.
Here is where it is headed ... (warning explicit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uaWB73ppg&list=PLAbp4GubGJi4vJx-qWmYUqQ0Io-FVdSY8
But, the Professors make the big bucks.
What is the problem?
Just one more dollar of debt that Santa Bernie can write off.
This will make the bank bail out look like a lemonade stand.
My retirement savings might last a month.
The problem of inability to read, and utilize proper grammar was a big problem even in the early 90’s.
I see it on the forums a lot when the language used for a person is a ‘’that’’ instead of a who, or whom.
Its visible when people don’t know the difference between hear and here, or They’re, Their, and There. Too, To and Two are real mind benders, aren’t they?
Why do we need Marxists to teach our children. There are pretty smart and entreprenurial people that have created software programs that teach, evaluate, and assist students in STEM related information. Traditional Education is DEAD!
I’ve run into this sometimes with my own kids - such an overwhelming level of incoherence that I don’t know where to start. Usually it required going back to a single basic skill. Write a single paragraph. If that’s too much, write three sentences in sequence. Do basic calculations with positive and negative numbers, page after page of them. Day after day of adding and subtracting fractions, until it sticks. Finally.
It took me five years of homeschooling as an adult to overcome twelve years of public school as a child.
Look at the crap I used to write on FR back when I joined in 2009. Can’t believe I used to know that girl.
Bmk
Education isn’t getting worse, really. The raw materials are getting worse. Most of those people do not belong in universities.
American education is rapidly getting worse.
Hmmm, Go ask any High School Student and they will tell you how smart they are and how good they feel. Does it really matter that they can not spell their own Names and Addresses?
Gee, America’s students are victims of educational malpractice? That’s just what the public educational system designed by Horace Mann and John Dewey wanted so they could mold and shape their new socialist men and women. Not working as you expected, eh? Well, that never stopped the American Left and it;s failed policies. We just have to keep trying the same old failed systems in the hope of a different result this time. This is the definition of insanity, but the Left will not hear it.
Gosh I feel sorry for teachers.
They get paid to teach.
They don’t get paid to sit at a desk.
If the kids lack skills, then teach them.
Education isn’t a giving a grade.
Education is teaching the skills.
If you don’t want to teach, well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
We sure have a lot of teachers who are afraid to get their hands dirty.
I watched Idiocracy again last night. Every few years when I rewatch it, it seems less and less bizarre. We’re almost there.
A large part of it is teacher training, which is NOT what it once was and many teachers are almost as stupid and uneducated as the kids they are supposed to teach.
Then there is the descent into the lowest side of humanity, debased culture, and the abrogation of parent/s of their job.
And then comes the fact that education has been flooded by far lefties, since the '70s and their growing power in all aspects, from K through graduate schools.
I would modify your comment slightly.
I agree that education for the bulk of students is getting worse. There are worse attitudes towards education, worse acceptance of the need for it, a fractured common culture which dumbs-down what is taught, and worse bureaucracies doing the teaching.
Like other parts of our society though, for a smaller group of motivated kids, with strong families (who, not surprisingly tend to be upper middle class - ala Charles Murray), education is improving and opportunities are immense. For example, our local state university runs a college calculus program for talented high school kids in our city. They accept about 50 middle-school kids from local school districts, and by the age of 16, these kids have completed a 2nd year college calculus level, with courses in analysis, logic, programming. All cost-free for the kids who are accepted. Really top-notch and not available when I was young. Of course, it is all kids from the suburbs, and 40/30/30 White, Asian and indian kids. In 4 years, I saw one black kid (who was an immigrant from Nigeria)
These kids will be the relatively thin layer of productive, technocratic people running our greatly fractured and dumbed-down country in the future.
Government schooling, look-say reading, all sorts of teaching methods that fail have been introduced deliberately to destroy literacy and numeracy. None of it is accidental. But the real problem is the number of children who are living their lives in complete despair, primarily because they are fatherless.
The main project of our elites is to eliminate monotheism. In the government schools, they drove out Christianity and replaced it with Unitarianism in the 19th century. They drove out Unitarianism in the 20th century, replacing it with atheism. They are now using Muslims to drive Christians and Jews underground. When that process is complete they will turn and slaughter the Muslims.
The Democrats are the main agents of Satanism in American society. Through government schooling and look-say “reading,” and welfare, they have attacked the natural family and the human person from every angle. Currently, they have a no-borders Pope and no-borders bishops on their side, helping them to replace the population of the United States with people who vote 70% for the Satanists. That is 70% pro-abortion, 70% no- borders, 70% socialist.
The very real collapse of education is just a symptom of the war that has been going on in this particular form for about 150 years. A war between atheist/Satanists and Christians.
QUIZ: Can You Pass an 8th Grade Test from 1912?
http://offbeat.topix.com/quiz/7458/qidx1
Sample Questions:
In which war was the Battle of Brandywine Creek fought?
How many parts of speech are there?
Define them.
Who was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean by crossing the isthmus of Panama?
Give three duties of the president.
Adjectives have how many degrees of comparison?
July 1, 1971 and October 17, 1979
In my opinion these are the dates that education in this once great nation hit the skids. Along with many other things.
WE now have a electorate that no longer thinks, but feels. This results in elected officials that cater to the lowest denominator , the voter that “feels”. So, if it “feels” right to graduate kids that can not write their name, we do it. If it “feels” right to offer 18 year old kids a college major and degree in ethnic studies, we do it. If it “feels” right to diversify the classroom by requiring the percentage of minority teachers meet or exceed the local population, qualified or not, we do it.
The icing on that cake is the US Department of Education. Thousands and thousands of employees, including a police force with a SWAT team that has never EDUCATED single student.
The result is what we have today. That mind they worried about wasting is not just wasted, but in many cases has reverted back to it’s most tribal primitive form.