America stopped caring how poor kids do in school
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America stopped caring how poor kids do in school
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#2The US stopped caring about truth, justice, and basic humanity. Caring about people is not in the cards at all.
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#3A consequence of the end of the cold war and a belief among many that a few, exceptional individuals are responsible for the bulk of the ingenuity that powers economic growth.
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#4> I think it’s pretty obviously a combination of smartphones, social media, and short-form video. If you give people more stuff to do, they read less.
Bingo. I and many other adults I know struggle with this. Taking a book with me on the way to work today let's see if it helps
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#5> I don’t want to blame everything bad that’s happened in American education on the little-noted 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Before that was No Child Left Behind, which due to perverse incentives resulted in us being taught at the speed of the slowest student. Wouldn't surprise me if this is their theory here too but most of the article is behind a paywall.
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#6> The basic story is that during the aughts, we had a bipartisan education reform consensus that was focused on improving school quality as an attainable and important driver of social and economic progress.
No Child Left Behind? It created tremendous incentives to teach to the test, and in some cases where that wasn't enough, to cheat to the test.
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#7The US stopped caring about truth, justice, and basic humanity. Caring about people is not in the cards at all.
I was blessedly slow to learn this, but a significant chunk of the population is motivated by hate.
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#8This is missing the forest for the trees.
The cost of almost everything government related is going up because the amount of money going to pensions is reaching its peak (the rate of increase was quite high for the last 15 years, that rate is starting to taper off significantly, and will pretty much flat line in 15 more years).
When a huge portion of your education spending is going to pay people that aren't working - you either need to funnel more money into it or cut.
When the economy isn't great (for the ordinary person), the ordinary person is going to choose cuts - and then they'll align their thinking to justify their choice.
Education is largely funded at the local level through property taxes which are rarely (never?) progressive.
If given the choice, I'm sure a lot more people would vote to make the Bill Gateses of the world pay more for education. It's not an option, so they're choosing cuts instead.
If it was an option, I'm sure you'd see a lot more ordinary people suddenly caring about the education of the poor.
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#9> I think it’s pretty obviously a combination of smartphones, social media, and short-form video. If you give people more stuff to do, they read less. Bingo. I and many other adults I know struggle with this. Taking a book with me on the way to work today let's see if it helps
Brutal for attention spans and satiety
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#10I'd like to read this, but it seems to be behind a paywall?
(There is a reasonable amount of the article before the paywall, and since the other comments here don't mention it, I am wondering whether they just thought the article was very short and then ended abruptly, lol)