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>Almost most 50 years later all this remains valid criticism. And
>nothing appears to have changed. The school systems that grew or
>changed during that generation could produce G. W. Bush, Dick Cheney. I
>heard the science and math part of the Incoronated Fraud's speech last
>night and I don't think he was wrong--just that it's very hard to figure
>out what we want to do with our students or ourselves or why the
>situation of second-ratedness continues.
I don't know about Cheney, but I doubt that Bush spent much time in
public schools.
The problem is both simple and virtually unsolveable. Unlike every
other country that mandates universal education, funding for schools,
and most decisions about hiring and curriculum, are done at the local
level, with some input at the state level and a smaller say at the
federal level. So schools in poor areas are poorly funded, and all
schools are subject to the level of education and the political or
social mores of the adults in their district. Need I say more.
Mark
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