Walter E. Williams: Educational Fraud Continues

[mountaineer]

WILLIAMS: Educational Fraud Continues

ByWalter E. Williams
April 28, 2018

Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka The Nation's Report Card, was released. It's not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just 7 percent reached at least a proficient level in math.

The atrocious NAEP performance is only a fraction of the bad news. Nationally, our high school graduation rate is over 80 percent. That means high school diplomas, which attest that these students can read and compute at a 12th-grade level, are conferred when 63 percent are not proficient in reading and 75 percent are not proficient in math. For blacks, the news is worse. ...

Fraudulent high school diplomas aren't the worst part of the fraud. Some of the greatest fraud occurs at the higher education levels — colleges and universities. ...   Read the article at Daily Wire

[Bigun]

Dr. Williams has a habit of cutting through the BS and getting at the heart of things.  He has certainly done so here.

[Fishrrman]

"Public education" has become a fraud, as well as a corrupt boondoggle.

I can't understand why any traditional-minded Americans would send their kids to public schools today...

[Applewood]

The kids can't read or do math, but they can recite for you every "social justice" talking point.  They are indoctrinated, not educated.  Where do you think that Hogg kid gets his anti-gun rhetoric? 

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

The kids can't read or do math, but they can recite for you every "social justice" talking point.  They are indoctrinated, not educated.  Where do you think that Hogg kid gets his anti-gun rhetoric?

Probably from the utube spammer that's spamming every thread with one or two word replies and several worthless links.

[mountaineer]

Related: Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars analyzes recent changes to "Advanced Placement" U.S. History courses in high school.

.... The College Board recently released its new AP U.S. History (APUSH) Curriculum Framework.[2]  It is, in many respects, a dispiriting document.  A great deal of important U.S. history is given cursory treatment and some ideological themes are sounded rather loudly.

In view of the many, many faults in American K-12 education, should the College Board’s hapless revision of the Advanced Placement framework in American history occasion special concern?  My answer is a qualified yes.  There are bigger problems, but this is one of those small problems that signifies larger things.  Our national memory is slipping.   ...

AP courses undergo frequent revision.  The newest revision, however, is radical.  The College Board has thrown away its old five-page topical outline for the course and replaced it with an 80-page analytic exposition of the course and a 40-page exposition of the exam with each question keyed to “learning objectives,” “historical thinking skills,” and “key concepts” in the course.  ...

 But in brief compass, Robbins and Krieger:

    Note that the College Board is, effectively, substituting a detailed course design for the broad framework it used to provide.  The new plan is still presented as a “framework” the way the Common Core is presented as “standards,” but in both cases the label is hollow.  The College Board is becoming a “de facto legislature for the nation’s public and private high schools.”
    Argue that the new framework relentlessly advances a negative view of America.  It dwells, for example, on the “rigid racial hierarchy” of colonial times and “ignores the United States’ founding principles.”   The Declaration of Independence gets short shrift.
    Observe that the Framework erases major figures from U.S. history, including Benjamin Franklin and James Madison, and drastically minimizes others, such as George Washington, who is glimpsed only in a passing mention of his Farewell Address.

Elsewhere, Krieger describes the APUSH as “an imposition” of a “biased interpretation of American history upon the states and local school districts.”    ...

Read the entire article at NAS

So-called "advanced" coursework is nothing more than indoctrination, and the student emerges actually knowing nothing.

[thackney]

"Public education" has become a fraud, as well as a corrupt boondoggle.

I can't understand why any traditional-minded Americans would send their kids to public schools today...

Not every public school is in such shape.  The biggest mistake a parent can make is depending on the school alone and not being involved in what is going on with their child.