Education Matters 2

Quote: "Allow me to start you off with 6 minutes of righteous ranting against “Generation Snowflake:” today’s University students who hide out in safe spaces, melt down in the face of dissenting opinions, and basically are incapable of functioning as adults in the world today."       http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/23/dumbing-university-generation-snowflake-hides-safe-spaces/?

Quote: "Here are two harsh realities about American education.  K-12 schools are mired in mediocrity.  Second, the Education Establishment and the high-level people who should be improving the schools seem indifferent to academic improvement. My sense is that the only people crusading for genuine reform are traditional intellectuals.  Alas, these are outsiders with little power.  Meanwhile, Bill Gates, the federal government, and scores of "progressive" front groups pump billions into backing bad ideas. The media and cultural institutions that should be involved in education look the other way.  The fix is in – that's the irresistible impression."   http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/education_reform_italian_group_shows_americans_how_its_done.html

The damage progressivism/political correctness has done to public schools continues apace.  Here is just one of many, many examples.   http://patriotupdate.com/school-crumbles-after-teachers-told-not-to-punish-minority-students-because-of-white-privilege/   It has also seriously infected colleges and universities.  Can you believe this? Quote: "School Official says 3x4=11 is Correct in Common Core!"    http://eaglerising.com/28778/school-official-says-3x411-is-correct-in-common-core/    Another stupid example.  http://eaglerising.com/29930/common-core-confusion-your-daily-dose-of-crazy/  Read on.

To get a bead on where American colleges and universities are going click on this link.  It is The College Fix website.  You can but you do not need to read all the articles.  You will find out how low many of these institutions have sunk by simply reading the headlines on the Fix's home page.  What you will learn from this brief excursion is that the political left/progressives are succeeding in destroying our country.  http://www.thecollegefix.com/

No wonder the status of US colleges and universities are in decline.  With professors like this what do you expect?   http://eaglerising.com/22861/college-professor-defends-sex-slavery-by-isis/    This item confirms the disastrous direction our colleges and universities are going.  Former president of Harvard University says so.    http://eaglerising.com/28925/political-correctness-and-creeping-totalitarianism-could-destroy-higher-education/

Some university professors are quitting their teaching jobs due to the unhealthy climate that requires abiding political correctness rather than open dialogue and learning.   http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25391/

This is unbelievable.  Students at Yale think they know more than their professors.  This is what liberal/progressivism's destructive civil and educational destructive tactics have wrought.  http://www.batr.org/totalitariancollectivism/111715.html 

This black American university professor is so very right.  It would be nice if leftist could understand his simple logic.  But logic is not their long suit, pursuit of an agenda trumps all else whether no matter how bad it is.  http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/12/30/misleading-and-using-blacks-n2097644/page/full

This item addresses the most divisive political issue at state and local levels.  Quote: "What should we do about the education of children from low income families?"   http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2015/12/26/our-most-divisive-political-issue-n2097222? 

If you are not concerned about Common Core I suggest you read this item.  It may well change your mind.  Quote: "This is yet more evidence for the reason to remove your kids from the public indoctrination centers called public school and demand that your representatives abolish the federal Department of Education. A Chinese immigrant mother of three testified before the Colorado State Board of Education that what is being passed off as Common Core is actually the same Communist indoctrination that she experienced as a child in Communist China."   http://eaglerising.com/24620/chinese-immigrant-mom-says-shes-seen-common-core-before-in-communist-china/ 

If you think the purveyors of Common Core are in it for the kids, you don't know them.  This large publishing house has this to say.  "“I hate kids,” she said, laughing. “I’m in it to sell books. Don’t even kid yourself for a heartbeat. It’s all about the money. What are you, crazy? It’s all about the money. You don’t think that the educational publishing companies are in it for education, do you? No, they’re in it for the money.”   http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-education-insiders-didnt-know-they-were-being-filmed-let-common-core-bombshell-slip/?

Way to go young lady.  She lets the school board know how she feels about Common Core.   http://www.westernjournalism.com/house-members-are-doing-this-one-thing-to-defeat-obama-tomorrow/?

This item about Common Core should make you sick because that is what it is doing to many of our children.  Quote: "It is not new news that Common Core is messing with our students’ homework and frustrating parents nationwide, but evidence is suggesting that the new “standards” are triggering major anxiety issues with our kids as well.  School psychologists in the state of New York responded to a survey released by the state School Boards Association and the state Association of School Psychologists. The results showed about three quarters of the respondents from nearly 700 school districts in New York report that state assessments are garnering more anxiety than local ones."   http://www.libertynewsnow.com/common-core-is-making-kids-sick/article2754   

Try to figure out this Common Core math problem.  Quote:  "As Western Journalism has previously reported, even those formally trained in mathematics find the process being taught in many U.S. schools to be convoluted and unnecessary. Frustration over these new standards obviously resonated with many who saw the social media image."    http://www.westernjournalism.com/something-about-this-check-a-parent-wrote-to-an-elementary-school-has-made-it-viral/?