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There are lots of proposals for education reform in the US, not all of which can work together. What do you think are the most important things that can be done to improve education?
But how in the world are you going to do that?The option for REALLY making a difference wasn't listed, namely, improving the raw material going in to the schools. Ever since Paul Erlich/the Zpg movement/ the women's rights movement and voluntarily reduced fertility levels, the very people who tend to have the highest educational level, themselves, tend to produce the fewest children, and those with the lowest educational levels the most. Reversing this trend, while not a realistic expectation, would do the most toward improving schooling.
When children come from situations where education isn't valued, they don't value it, and when so many of the more intelligent potential parents take themselves out of the gene pool, then the school systems are limited to those who have more children.
But how in the world are you going to do that?
Talk the poor and the ignorant into having fewer children....
And convince the selfish and greedy into having more.....
This is something to cause both the Republican and Democrats "think tanks" to work overtime...
The option for REALLY making a difference wasn't listed, namely, improving the raw material going in to the schools. Ever since Paul Erlich/the Zpg movement/ the women's rights movement and voluntarily reduced fertility levels, the very people who tend to have the highest educational level, themselves, tend to produce the fewest children, and those with the lowest educational levels the most. Reversing this trend, while not a realistic expectation, would do the most towards improving schooling.
When children come from situations where education isn't valued, they don't value it, and when so many of the more intelligent potential parents take themselves out of the gene pool, then the school systems are limited to those who have more children.
But how in the world are you going to do that?
Talk the poor and the ignorant into having fewer children....
And convince the selfish and greedy into having more.....
This is something to cause both the Republican and Democrats "think tanks" to work overtime...
You've watched Idiocracy recently, haven't you.
Don't worry - we won't fall apart that far.
Public schools are very successful in their primary objective which is to provide secure and well paying jobs for adults. Hooray for the adults.
Public schools have failed huge numbers of students by graduating them without basic survival skills. Not to mention the dropouts. Too bad for the kids.
No, I have never seen it. Your mentioning it reminds me that I have heard the name, but I know nothing about it.
My own opinions have more to do with observation and reading metahistorians like Spengler and Toynbee than anything else.
From what I can tell graduation rates for high school students is 70.06 % nation wide. Now in my book that would be a passing grade. Just barely but it still passes.
HigherEdInfo.org: Public High School Graduation Rates
Make them all eat at least 10 ounces of this every day.
I know it sounds cliche, but the breakdown of the home is THE reason our students are failing. All the other reasons pale in comparison.
That's a recipe for a second rate America.
When Winston pointed out a graduation rate of 70% , Albert said this
I would be most interested in knowing when you feel we had a first class America and what the graduation rate was at that time?
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