American Education: 35 Years of Mediocrity Since A Nation at Risk

[rangerrebew]

   American Education: 35 Years of Mediocrity Since A Nation at Risk   
By Jeanne Allen

April 11, 2018 6:30 AM
 
Our school systems fail to prepare children to succeed as adults and are ineffective for the goal of deep and rich learning. It’s time to change that.

It’s been 35 years. With the passage of that much time, and the human promise that it carried, the problems and deficiencies identified in 1983’s clarion call for action should have been corrected.

The call came from the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE) in its report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. That report and its findings demonstrated the inextricable link between education and America’s economic competitiveness and national security. We were losing our edge, and our shirt, to other countries. In a growing global economy we were losing to such friends as Japan and Germany; and in the midst of the lingering Cold War we were losing as well to our fiercest competitors, namely Russia and China, which had made education, particularly in math and the sciences, national priorities.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/american-education-35-years-of-mediocrity-since-a-nation-at-risk/

[mountaineer]

Here's the National Assessment of Educational Progress "report card" on how well kids are doing in math and reading.

Read it and weep.

[Applewood]

This mediocrity has been going on for years now.  Well, how are the children going to learn math, English, science and such if they are being indoctrinated instead of educated? 

[mountaineer]

Some analysis of the NAEP report:

Nation’s ‘Report Card’ Shows Federal Intervention Has Not Helped Students[/b]
Lindsey Burke / @lindseymburke / April 10, 2018

...  On Tuesday, the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education released the highly anticipated results of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as the nation’s “report card,” underscoring that point.

The scores are a particular indictment of Obama-era education policies, including historically high levels of spending, the addition of new programs, numerous federal directives, and perhaps most consequentially, Common Core.

Here are the key results.

Raw Scores (and Student Achievement) Flatline

Eighth-grade reading increased one point in 2017 from 2015, up to 267. Fourth-grade reading was not significantly different, declining from 223 in 2015 to 222 in 2017. Fourth-grade math scores were unchanged, at 240 in both 2015 and 2017, and eighth-grade math scores did not significantly change, moving from 282 in 2015 to 283 in 2017.   ...

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[Fishrrman]

Original title:
"American Education: 35 Years of Mediocrity Since A Nation at Risk"

Corrected title:
"American Education: 35 Years of Leftist Indoctrination Since A Nation at Risk"

[Sanguine]

"Mediocrity"?  It doesn't even rise to mediocre.

[RoosGirl]

This is why we have chosen to do everything we can to afford for me to stay home and homeschool.  Our assigned public school has over 50% that couldn't pass the math or reading portions of standardized tests and about 2/3rds of the kids can barely speak (and of course can't write) English.  But, aren't we lucky that a huge chunk of our property taxes go towards paying for that cluster.

[WingNot]

If we would just pay teachers more money and raise the amount per student we spend, we could improve those scores.