WHY IS PUBLIC EDUCATION FAILING?
By Tom DeWeese December 25, 2007 NewsWithViews.com It’s a fact. Most of today’s school children can barely read or write. They can’t perform math problems without a calculator. They barely know who the Founding Fathers were and know even less of their achievements. Most can’t tell you the name of the President of the United States. It’s pure and simple; today’s children aren’t coming out of school with an academics education. Colleges know it. They have to set up remedial courses for incoming freshmen just to prepare them for classes. Parents know it. Their children grow dumber everyday. The politicians say they know it. They hold hearings to grill education “experts,” and they hold high-powered education “summits” to debate and discuss the “problem.” And they keep coming up with more federal programs and dictate more standards and spend more taxpayer dollars to fix the problem. But the problem continues to explode. Why? Frankly, any parent can find the answer simply by looking through
