Education Improved
Blog URL http://www.educationimproved.blogspot.com
Tags education,, k-12, improve education, excellence, public schools, dumbing down, Dewey
Strong opinions about what is wrong with American education. And what we can do to improve. Short, snappy, smart, insightful.
Latest Blog Posts
- New York Times Shows Signs Of Social Responsibility on Nov 23, 2009 in sophistry collectivism socialism Marxism K-12 dumbing down
Star columnist Nicholas Kristof joins his Times colleagues Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman in lamenting the deplorable state of our public schools. More astonishing, Kristof puts much of the blame on teacher’s unions and Democrats. Here’s the money...
- New York Times Spin Machine on Oct 14, 2009 in sophistry New York Times falling SAT scores nation at risk Virginian pilot K-12 dumbing down
The big mystery is why Paul Krugman (“The Uneducated American,” ca. Oct. 12th) thinks anyone would believe his notion that education is in decline because not enough money is being thrown into this deep dark hole. In particular, Krugman wants to...
- A Passion for Teaching....Teaching the Passion on Sep 22, 2009 in teaching effective teaching ergonomic K-12
I got a wonderful note from a teacher yesterday: "I found your Latin word list, and your 'How to teach Latin' on YouTube this week....I have the great good fortune to be a Latin teacher. My students decline and conjugate ad infinitum, we sing our gra...
- Harvard Invades Virginia Beach (Fights Fiercely For Fluff) on Sep 8, 2009 in liberal media multiculturalism Norfolk SAT scores Cooperative learning cognitive Pilot K-12 failing schools dumbing down
Virginia still has SOL’s (Standards of Learning). These tests, which progressive educators love to hate, remind people that schools used to focus on facts and knowledge. The Education Establishment works tirelessly to suppress this reactionary nons...
- Critical Thinking--A Fraud For At Least 60 Years on Aug 19, 2009 in sophistry critical thinking educators dumbing down
Just put new review on Amazon for "And Madly Teach," published 1949, perhaps the earliest expose of public school follies. Wonderful book...And it contained a wonderful anecdote about a boy who got 30 in reading and math. When his mother complained,...
- The Good News About Education Spending? It’s Overrated! on Aug 4, 2009 in facts excellence knowledge academics teaching standards learning grades ergonomic testing K-12
Maybe if enough school districts waste enough billions without enough results, people will finally realize: “Gee, maybe money isn’t everything. Maybe we really ought to make teachers major in what they teach. Maybe we ought to use reading program...
- The Big Education Story This Week--And Every Week--Is Reading on Jul 21, 2009 in K.-12 alphabet functional illiteracy words reading dumbing down vocabulary literacy
Did you know we have 50 million functional illiterates? That should be a clue that our Education Establishment is lost and needs to rethink a lot of dumb ideas. I believe that reading is ground zero in the education wars. If we are to save the public...
