Re-blogging because education reform is the basis for a reconstituted, politically aware, electorate. It has never mattered more than at the present.
I have been corresponding with Eva Moskowitz, a leader in NYC education reform. She is involved with the Charter School movement (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_schools), and has a well-researched critique of the “therapeutic” culture that has distorted our education system since the late 19th century, most recently in the emphasis on “self-esteem” in the multicultural curriculum. Her book illuminated for me some of the “progressive” precursors to New Age thinking, a psychology cult that is particularly strong in California, and which is both silly and dangerous.
What follows are some of my initial thoughts about obstacles to reforming our schools, with some special attention to the charter school movement, though that is not the focus of this blog. I have included links to earlier blogs on this website.
1. Fragmentation of the professions: because of the way that college education evolved, the holistic “philosophic” approach of such thinkers as Bernard Mandeville…
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