I read a post on Quora last week where a right-wing teacher was blaming the unions and “liberal teacher indoctrination” for dumbing kids down and lowering standards.
My first thought was the “lowering standards” (and cheating) I remember as an outgrowth of W’s No Child Left Behind. They started conditioning federal money to schools on aggregate standardized test scores and that got a lot of schools dropping kids and scores that lowered their average, teaching to the test, cheating on the test, etc.
“Common Core” was also an outgrowth of No Child Left Behind, and a collection of states came up with it, not the feds.
I honestly don’t know what the answer is to improve education across the board, but the gop answer is clearly “Kill the public school system” and “Send our kids to our indoctrination camps” and “Screw that kid; he isn’t mine.”
Bibi has spent 30 years strangling any idea of a two state solution, undermining the PA, and carving up the occupied territories. He’s painted them into a corner where the “best” options are total expulsion (to where?) of the Palestinians or a severly apartheid state
Since 2005, the formula has been Hamas does some kind of attack, Israel responds by killing (almost exactly) 10x Gazans – until the disparity draws enough international condemnation to get Israel to stop.
Now we’re up around 25x and Bibi’s fragile coalition contains full-on genocidalists.
As dotbup says, Hamas doesn’t care either way – it’s all pr for them.
I read a post on Quora last week where a right-wing teacher was blaming the unions and “liberal teacher indoctrination” for dumbing kids down and lowering standards.
My first thought was the “lowering standards” (and cheating) I remember as an outgrowth of W’s No Child Left Behind. They started conditioning federal money to schools on aggregate standardized test scores and that got a lot of schools dropping kids and scores that lowered their average, teaching to the test, cheating on the test, etc.
“Common Core” was also an outgrowth of No Child Left Behind, and a collection of states came up with it, not the feds.
I honestly don’t know what the answer is to improve education across the board, but the gop answer is clearly “Kill the public school system” and “Send our kids to our indoctrination camps” and “Screw that kid; he isn’t mine.”