Where Public Education Has Gone Wrong: And What To Do About It (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798361864447)

My thesis is simple enough. Public education has gone wrong because of the very effort to improve it from the time we found ourselves in a space race with Russia. As a high-school educator in California I was caught up in this with the so-called New Math, which proved to be a disaster. When I moved up the ladder as a community college professor I observed and occasionally took part in new efforts to improve teaching through a career that lasted more than half a century. This ended when still another "reform" appeared with an avowed plan to end racism by subverting the concept of academic excellence. The question now is whether successful public education even remains a possibility.

I think it is, but in an increasingly polarized society it calls for a better understanding of why children do not and cannot think like adults. Above all it will mean a long overdue recognition of teaching as a sacred calling.

Author: Douglass McFerran
ISBN-10: 836186444X
ISBN-13: 9798361864447
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2022
Pages: 106
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d