The document discusses the debate around declining reading ability in American schools. It argues that the supposed causes like a decline in phonics instruction are not substantiated, and the real issue is people exploiting the problem to profit. Various solutions proposed by experts have not worked to improve scores. The document suggests letting teachers teach without interference from constantly changing expert recommendations.
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Challenging Standards And Student Assessments In Every Statenoblex1
As the nation rightly focuses on issues and events affecting our foreign policy and defense, one major element of domestic policy remains to be resolved. And it deserves our attention. Our states and their leaders have successfully pioneered many of the policies now considered essential for the rest of the nation. Our No. 1 priority, in fact, is the successful implementation of challenging standards and student assessments in every state.
Our national insistence that schools get their collective act together is a good thing. But our focus must remain on the urgent needs of children today, and that requires choice of schools. Without choices, good intention lack motivation.
Students who are attending failing or mediocre schools, even schools with the best intention of improving, will remain trapped there because ZIP codes dictate their attendance. When students are unable to find a better school to suit their needs, not only are the children trapped, but also the school has little reason for urgent improvement. In a system where everyone must stay where they are regardless of quality, there is little reason to fix the problems.
It has been argued that we need to give schools time to put these new standards and accountability mechanisms in place - that they can't be held accountable overnight.
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Our faith in education as an enterprise — one in which the young are initiated into the aspects of our culture which we deem worthy of preservation — has been undermined by an education establishment committed to progressive, child-centered approaches, and by politicians gullible enough to give them house room.
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Education problem solution
1. “There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labour of
thinking.” Sir Joshua Reynolds. One of Thomas Alva Edison’s favourite
quotations.
This is played out in the Great American Schools Debate. (Great debate, not
great schools.) What happened? Why? What can be done to fix it?
First, I have come across nothing that substantiates the claim that using phonics
to teach reading caused the decline in the ability of American students to read.
[Hold this thought. The decline was in test scores. We will return to that topic.]
There are numerous reasons that can be cited; and probably were. Failure to
identify students needing glasses. Failure to identify students with ADHD.
Failure to identify students who came from troubled homes, and so on.
Still, reading ability declined and we embraced a panicked approach to solving
the problem—or not.
What really happened is the opportunity to make a buck. Exploiting children.
Shaking America down for loot.
Some nincomperson writes a book and becomes an expert by appearing on talk
show television. Was he an expert? Did reading ability
A. Go up
B. Go down
C. Stay the Same
D. All of the above
E. None of the above.
Mostly, they went down. Still, studies can and will show that all of the above is
most likely correct. It depends on who did the test, on how the test was
conducted, on why the test was conducted. None-the-less, children are less able
to read today. How do I know this? Because everyone is in a panic to solve the
problem of youngsters not learning to read.
Not too long ago, the demand was for better-educated teachers; more
experienced teachers; better-looking teachers, and so on.
In a marketing strategy, and to appease parents, school officials fabricated a
higher standard. Teachers with Masters Degrees, teachers with PhD’s, and
teachers with more experience. This created an artificial demand and pushed up
the price of education. This did not work. How do I know this? There is a
continued demand to improve education in America.
2. Now, we have a new mantra: get rid of collective bargaining, fire experienced
teachers, lower the cost of education, and everything will be hunky-dory. Will this
strategy work? Have the experts been right before? No. How do I know this? If
they were, there wouldn’t be a need to do something about declining education.
Now, I admit that my approach to examining the problem involves a bit of
trickery. I am using common knowledge and common sense. However, please
overlook that for the moment. Then again, don’t.
If performance is lower today than it was yesterday, then it must have been
higher yesterday. If performance yesterday was lower than it was the day
before, performance must have been higher the day before. Now, anyone with
more intelligence than a five-pound bag of store brand cheese puffs will ask,
“How did we teach children to read when children learned to read?” Answer, in
the public arena, “Things were different back then.” To which I respond, “You’re
darn tootin’ they were. Children learned to read.”
Now we get to teacher testing. The new demand is to test teachers. What an
incredibly not smart idea.
1. The people who want teachers tested are the same people who inveighed
against testing students. (Teaching to the test.)
2. The people who want teachers tested are the same people who’ve said,
“Testing promotes memorization and memorization stifles creativity.” (All our
children would be kings and captains of industry except that they had to
memorize the times tables and that stifled their creativity.)
3. The people who are most concerned about testing teachers are the same
people who relied on testing to banish phonics from the classroom. Do you
remember what I asked you to set aside for later? [Hint: The decline was in test
scores. We will return to that topic.]
Then there is the demand for charter schools. The people who laud charter
schools, and cite low costs and high performance as compurgation for their
position, apparently don’t listen to what they themselves are saying. They
choose to ignore the part about how charter schools are unfettered by the
opinions of the experts who are fettering public school education. How do I know
that to be true? They are citing the poor performance in public schools. How do
they know that? They cite test scores. How do they feel about testing? They
don’t want children tested because teachers will teach to the test; however, they
want teachers tested to see if the teachers know the subject matter. (There is a
sentence in there somewhere, some assembly required.)
I once opined, online, that Parochial schools are doing a fine job at educating
children. What no one waited to hear was this: “Parochial schools teach the way