The achievement of high
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
American Education
How would you like
How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can’t read, write, speak or understand English — or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child’s education dumbed … Read more
People will urge you
People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80’s. You are here to hustle. E. C. Osondu
The greatest obstacle to
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. Diane Ravitch
American education has been
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. Diane Ravitch
American Education has a
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? Diane Ravitch
The American education system
The American education system couldn’t be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. Dennis Miller
Building new connections is
Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks. danah boyd
We have a lot
We have a lot of rhetoric today about high rigor and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness. Dana Goldstein
[Betsy] DeVos’s statement turned
[Betsy] DeVos’s statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were ecstatic, including Sandy Kress, a top education adviser in George W. Bush’s administration. Claudio Sanchez