Putting Flesh back on the American Public School Skeleton…..but Whose Flesh?

 

Restructuring Public Education for the 21st Century

American public education needs a complete restructuring in order to support the development of critical thinkers ready to assume their positions as productive citizens of a free society.  Neglecting to change the system will only contribute to America losing its position as the leader of the free world, says Linus Wright, an undersecretary of education during the Reagan administration and senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis.

• Students in dozens of other countries, including China, South Korea, Germany and Finland, outperformed American students in reading, math and science, according to the Program for International Student Assessment results released in December 2010.
• The United States ranked 23rd in science, 17th in reading and — worst of all — 31st in math.

These results suggest that the United States is in need of a public education makeover.  Indeed, students are inadequately prepared in elementary and middle school for academic success in high school. 

• Consider, 75 percent to 80 percent of urban children begin kindergarten with inadequate to non-existent vocabulary for learning.
• Over time, many become discouraged and drop out, leaving the United States in the unenviable position of having one of the highest dropout rates in the world — the United States’ secondary education graduation rate was 76 percent in 2009, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); six percentage points behind the OECD average of 82 percent.

America must move away from its antiquated agrarian system of education — a six-hour school day and a 180 day school year will not and cannot compete with other industrialized nations whose students meet higher academic standards, have better prepared teachers, spend 30 percent to 50 percent more time in class, and are supported by a parental culture that expects and requires more from their children, says Wright.  In addition, the United States needs to seriously consider how to improve academic achievement for low-income and non-English speaking students.

Important reforms include:

• Early childhood education.
• Eliminating the 12th grade.
• Moving vocational education to community colleges.

Source: Linus Wright, “Restructuring Education for the 21st Century,” National Center for Policy Analysis, February 23, 2012.

For text:

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ib107

Comment:   But why supply the present American public education skeleton with the above formula?   The catastrophe lies from kindergarten through undergraduate  and  graduate  school in the Marxism  rich contemporary  social sciences?

Why not begin at both ends of the American education lineup?   Why not remove  the Nation’s Colleges of Education teaching corps (pronounced “corpse” by Harvard ‘Educated’ president of the United States, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, who campaigned in all 57 states of the United States in 2008 and only yesterday discovered algae.) and close the schools of hate, the University Departments of Women Studies, Black Studies, Latino Studies,  Arab Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies from coast to coast  for starters?

How about some honest research on what actually is being taught in America’s public schools, K through 12 AND in its colleges and universities throughout the country.     Over the past generation know-nothings graduating from American high schools have been allowed to select their own curriculum and avoid classes which don’t suit their fancies.

The Nation has been crippled by black racism, fanatic feminism, open boundaries, to add to the public school and college free for all.   We now live in a culture where screwballs, not guns, threaten the safety of public school teacher and student alike.    I speak from personal experience when teaching in an urban black majority school 40 years ago.   And the culture there and in other communities has become more disarranged and violent ever since.

If American’s desire an improved education for young or for all,  they must educate teachers to be learned, not to be selling Marxism, Black Racism, Feminism, Latino Parochialism, Gay and Lesbian claptrap or any other intellectual jello of the day.    A proper diet of learning knowledge must be restored.

The American educational system must free itself from institutionalized feminized  hysteria and return to intellectual male problem solving.