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The problem with education now is the massive defunding effort by the Republicans to drain all of the money out of public domain (that is, the government) and into the private domain (yes... business/corporate run). I think NCLB is atrocious, and as a pre-service Social Studies teacher I'm going to have to deal with it until we get a regime change of sorts. The defunding of education I view as part of an agenda to keep a large section of our population uneducated, because it makes it easier to keep a large section of the population in crappy service jobs and unemployed (you all know that the Fed has institutionalized maintaining a certain percentage of unemployment because they view the idea of full employment in our economy as a bad thing, right?). The more educated someone is, the more likely they are going to vote Democrat instead of Republican, surprisingly.
Have faith skeptics and Democrat haters, I'm not going to push my "agenda" on the kids. I welcome differing views into my classroom. But the state of education in the US is looking pretty sad.
Test-based education is a big mistake, we want accountability and assessment... but don't ruin lives over it, and be realistic, these things are <b>not</b> objective. It is documented quite well that test scores don't have a strong correlation with life achievement. So, there you have it, my feelings based on facts and inferences.
Even the Supreme Court realizes that education is the "most important" service administered by the states - so let's do it right, and fund it!
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