The Education Reform Illusion
smoke and mirrors in education
I think I’m going to scream!
As you may know, I’m on the mailing lists of LOTS of education sites and I follow what’s happening in education VERY closely.
As grandparents, and great-grandparents, we are committed to improving public schools for our children and ALL the children across the nation.
That’s one of the reasons I’m so spitting mad!
At last, something that works!
My beloved husband Don has PROVEN a plan for drastically improving public schools that is so workable and so easy to implement NATIONWIDE, that he actually wrote a book about it. “Set Our Teachers FREE!” tells the entire story about how “The Kingsland Plan” was developed and PROVEN over and over again, with GUARANTEED student success.
But first, everyone was committed to the farce that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became.
When people finally realized what a failure that program was, how widespread the cheating for federal funds became, and how drastically public schools continued in their downward spiral, all of a sudden some people admitted that NCLB wasn’t the answer.
Something we’d been saying all along.
So EDin08.com/Strong American Schools came into existence. This organization claimed a mission of bringing the need for Education Reform into the Presidential campaign and had BILLIONS of dollars behind it. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was just ONE of the supporters.
We contacted the Gates Foundation, to offer the plan as a workable solution to improving public schools, and got a “Thanks, but No Thanks!”
Apparently bringing the information about failing schools to the candidates attention was MORE IMPORTANT than fixing the problems, because NOW EDin08 is disbanding, claiming a victory for their efforts.
In one respect, they are correct! President Obama has made Education Reform a big issue of his administration and is throwing BILLIONS of dollars at the problems. But, even after BILLIONS of dollars already spent, the right solutions have not been found.
In fact, almost everyone Barack Obama and Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, are counting on to fix schools HAVE NO BACKGROUND IN WHAT WORKS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION!
The Education Equality Project or EEP
Now that EDin08/Strong American Schools have accomplished their purpose (oh, really?), they are now disbanding and joining forces with Al Sharpton’s Education Equality Project!
Everybody and their brother is jumping on the bandwagon to close the achievement gap in our public schools. And there truly IS a big problem with the achievement gap between Caucasians/Asians and African-Americans/Hispanics.
But this COMPLETELY IGNORES the BIG PICTURE!
NOBODY is being educated adequately. NONE of our students are achieving levels of global competitiveness. Our best and brightest come in 12th to 24th in international competition!
We need to straighten-out our entire public education system!
Instead, billions of dollars and political clout is being vested in special interests ONLY!
I want EVERY CHILD IN AMERICA to have the opportunity to achieve academic excellence and success in their life!
We need to stop putting all our resources (including money) into helping only one segment of our population.
It’s time to STRAIGHTEN-OUT all the schools our children attend!
Read “Set Our Teachers FREE!” and learn how “The Kingsland Plan” can help ALL our children.
Brennan
