Is higher education failing our schools or are higher students failing our education? Worse yet is our K-12 public school system. Former teacher Jane Aitken from the Coalition of NH Taxpayers (CNHT.org)and Dan will discuss the corruption and design flaws of our public school system (U.S. is ranked 27th out of 29 developed countries). Click here for archived interview on May 29, 2009.
Homework: Watch The Colbert Report 30 minutes a day on Comedy Central and read the following book by:
Charlotte Iserbyt - the consummate whistleblower!
Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.
Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000.
the deliberate dumbing down of america is a chronological history of the past 100+ years of education reform. Each chapter takes a period of history and recounts the significant events, including important geopolitical and societal contextual information. Citations from government plans, policy documents, and key writings by leading reformers record the rise of the modern education reform movement. Americans of all ages will welcome this riveting expose of what really happened to what was once the finest education system in the world.