James Meredith: Time for an American Child’s Bill of RightsMeredith
nails this, IMO.
“We are losing millions of our children to inferior schools and catastrophically misguided and ineffective so-called education reforms. Our schools are being destroyed by politics, profit, greed and lies,” he adds. “Instead of evidence-based practices, money has become the engine of education policy, and our schools are being hijacked by politicians, non-educators and for-profit operators. Parents, teachers, citizens and community elders must arm ourselves with the best evidence and take back control of our children’s public education before it is too late. We all must work together to improve our public schools, not on the basis of profit or politics, but on the basis of evidence, and on the basis of love for America’s children.”
Maybe then we'd all have a chance of getting children who "don't need" any "help" (to pass the increasingly prolific all-powerful "state tests")-- that is, OUR kids-- actually given some education for a change.
I'd like it if my tax dollars were used for Meredith's agenda. I'd like that very much.
I would rather that a lot LESS of my tax dollar were going to Pearson (and their ilk) for programs/"improvements" of dubious merit.
