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As teachers’ strikes continue to develop across the United States demanding full funding for public schools, an Oklahoma Republican Party official has issued a public call for the abolition of public education on behalf of the state’s fourth largest county. The statement, brought to national attention on November 29 in the Washington Post, is breathtaking … Read more
Unlikely as it might sound, one of the most electric political meetings I have ever attended was a lecture on the Finnish educational system given by Pasi Sahlberg, the Finnish educator and author, in London in the spring of 2012. Sahlberg, who was speaking to a packed committee room 14 of the House of Commons … Read more
On a crisp fall morning, parents lined the school’s circular driveway in Audis, BMWs, and Land Rovers, among other luxury SUVs, to drop their high schoolers off at Detroit Country Day School. Dressed in uniforms—boys in button-down shirts, blazers with the school crest, khaki or navy dress pants, and ties; girls in largely the same … Read more
The School Revolution is a short book and as such contains an impressive number of errors, derived from some combination of omission, commission, and faulty logic. To take one example, Paul says that the state school indoctrination machine has been aided by liberally biased textbooks. “A standard textbook may cost as much as $500,000 to … Read more
I begin with my conclusion: The “public” school system is the most immoral and corrupt institution in the United States of America today, and it should be abolished. It should be abolished for the same reason that chattel slavery was ended in the 19th century: Although different in purpose and in magnitude of harm to … Read more
Flickr/<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/pirateheart/2416967979/”>England</a> (<a href=”http://www.creativecommons.org”>Creative Commons</a>). Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It’s fairly common for conservative political candidates to support eliminating the federal Department of Education. But in California, tea party darling and congressional candidate David Harmer has gone further. He’s advocated eliminating public … Read more