{"id":2018968,"date":"2023-09-01T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-and-republicans-have-been-talking-about-school-reform-for-years-while-everything-has-gotten-worse\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T03:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:37:53","slug":"democrats-and-republicans-have-been-talking-about-school-reform-for-years-while-everything-has-gotten-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-and-republicans-have-been-talking-about-school-reform-for-years-while-everything-has-gotten-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Democrats and Republicans have discussed school reform for years, but unfortunately, things have only worsened."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-and-republicans-have-been-talking-about-school-reform-for-years-while-everything-has-gotten-worse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Education: \u200bA Neglected Issue in\u200d American Politics<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One important takeaway from the first Republican presidential primary debate was that every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-and-republicans-have-been-talking-about-school-reform-for-years-while-everything-has-gotten-worse\/\" title=\"Both Democrats and Republicans have discussed school reform for years, but unfortunately, things have only worsened.\">candidate shared lackluster views<\/a> on education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The GOP \u2064has \u2062not developed a coherent position on this crucial issue. Sure, they have a few talking \u2063points: They want \u2063to abolish the Department of Education, break up teachers unions, protect \u200cchildren from leftist \u2064radicals, and implement\u200d some kind\u200d of school choice. But \u200bthis doesn\u2019t come close to a\u2063 comprehensive vision of an\u2064 issue \u200dthat affects \u200dall Americans and will largely determine the trajectory of \u200dthe country\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-116781342\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0f8d2e980fd5fc3127585e07e9258ada fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0f8d2e980fd5fc3127585e07e9258ada\"><\/div>\n<p>Assuming the candidates received their wishes, how would this work\u200d out? In all likelihood, this would mean that the federal\u2063 government\u200c would \u2064save billions of dollars by offering fewer \u200cgrants to needy college students and \u200dunderprivileged \u2062schools. Teachers in all states would\u2062 lose their leverage in negotiating a fair wage and better\u2062 working conditions. And a whole new industry of education scammers would crop up to con unwitting parents out of \u2062their school vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>These ostensible \u201creforms\u201d could be made without \u2064such negative outcomes \u200d\u2014 \u200cand I\u2019ve argued for some of \u200bthem \u2062myself \u2014\u2062 but only if the reformers\u2064 did their \u200dhomework and took the \u200ctime to understand how these systems and processes worked.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Democrat Party is even worse on education. Even as they claim to be pro-teacher and defend teachers unions (who fund their campaigns in\u200b turn),\u200b they undermine this\u200c by routinely\u200b attacking parents. They ignore the rampant decay \u200dand dysfunction \u2062of \u2063so many public school \u2063systems, particularly in large Democrat-run cities. They even weaponize government agencies to intimidate parents\u2063 who protest at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-school-district-announces-policy-to-push-anti-racist-thinking-in-preschool-redefine-discrimination-and-racism\/\" title=\"Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push \u2018Anti-Racist Thinking\u2019 In Preschool, Redefine \u2018Discrimination\u2019 and \u2018Racism\u2019\">school board meetings<\/a>. Despite their professed commitment to so-called equity, they seem\u2063 utterly blind to the gross inequality \u2064in education everywhere \u2014\u2064 which is why \u2064so many of them would never be caught dead sending their kids to the local public school.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, public education in the U.S. is going\u2062 through a rough time, especially post-Covid. American students have experienced substantial declines in their reading, math, and civics scores, all of \u200dwhich were\u2063 at low levels already. Many\u200d of them struggle with poor\u2064 mental health and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-adults-extremely-proud-to-be-american-near-record-low\/\" title=\"Record low levels of American adults expressing extreme pride in being American.\">show high levels<\/a> of \u200danxiety. Tech addiction is\u200c rampant. Bullying and violence \u200care on the rise. Grade inflation\u200d is common, and many schools are devoid of\u2063 academic rigor, making them little more than publicly funded daycare centers. And,\u200d to top it all off, a nationwide teacher shortage continues \u2063to worsen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-dad492d5eb72da9b241cbf42e4ecc13b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-dad492d5eb72da9b241cbf42e4ecc13b\"><\/div>\n<p>These are massive problems that carry massive consequences for the\u200b health of the country, which is already experiencing a growing competency crisis. This problem was\u200c recently encapsulated in the wildfires that consumed \u2062Maui.<\/p>\n<p>Incompetence preceded the fires. Public\u200d leaders took no precautionary measures to prevent the fires from starting. Incompetence occurred during the fires. No warning\u200d alarms were activated, and roads were\u200c being barricaded. And incompetence is now on display as the public officials\u2064 neglect the \u2063victims and\u200d stupidly blame climate change for the \u2062whole thing. This is not how a well-educated society handles disasters.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, as American leaders usher in a new idiocracy, other countries are moving in the opposite direction, transforming \u200dtheir backward, destitute, war-torn \u2063societies into rich first-world\u2064 nations that are\u2063 more\u200c advanced than most parts of the\u200c U.S.\u200b This would include places like Finland, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and the major cities in China.<\/p>\n<p>What accounts\u2064 for these countries\u2019\u200d meteoric rise is their \u200cheavy emphasis on education \u2014 all of them\u200d rank among the top countries on\u200c the Program for\u200d International Student Assessment (PISA). In \u200cher book Cleverlands,\u2063 Lucy\u2063 Crehan, a public\u200d school teacher from\u200c the U.K., travels around\u200b the world and\u2062 examines each \u2062of these countries\u2019 schools. While \u200dthey \u2064may differ in a few ways, all of them\u200c are committed \u200dto \u200cholding students accountable, valuing their teachers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-warns-of-long-term-economic-losses-from-plunging-child-test-scores\/\" title=\"U.S. Chamber of Commerce Warns of Long-Term Economic Losses From Plunging Child Test Scores\">maintaining high academic standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c406c3bfc363d5227fdaf027c6124352 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c406c3bfc363d5227fdaf027c6124352\"><\/div>\n<p>At most, there are only a \u200bhandful of elements of these\u2064 countries\u2019 educational policies\u2064 that align\u2063 with the\u2063 agenda of today\u2019s \u200cleftists and conservatives. Leftists will appreciate the trust and support given to teachers\u2062 and administrators while conservatives will like the professionalism and meritocracy at work. \u200cBut instead of talking about ways to adopt these successful models for \u2064American\u2064 students, leftists and conservatives tend to go in circles, arguing about banning \u200dpornographic books in school libraries or whether grades are \u200cracist.<\/p>\n<p>Like I sometimes\u200c tell people, these \u200dcultural\u200b battles, while important in themselves, aren\u2019t really a concern for most of us teachers who have a thousand other worries.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, they tend to dominate the public discourse because they attract attention and are relatively easy\u2064 to \u2062understand. By contrast, important matters like school budgets, teacher training, modes of assessment, pedagogical strategy, or academic and behavior standards usually \u200bbore otherwise informed Americans \u200dwho want better schools.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it requires more instances of preventable catastrophes and a prolonged erosion of our quality of life for people \u2064to take education more seriously. In the\u2063 short term, however, there\u2019s a \u2063wide-open lane for any\u2062 politician, left or\u2062 right,\u200b to make a name for himself by taking on this crisis.\u200c For those of us who are teachers and parents, this \u200dis what we\u2019re worried about now, and no one is really talking \u200dabout\u200c it in\u200d the ways that matter most.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e5b2869899871d67548b70e3970758bf fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e5b2869899871d67548b70e3970758bf\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial GOP debate revealed a unanimous lack of enthusiasm towards education among candidates. Regrettably, the party lacks a unified stance on this vital matter. While they mention abolishing the Education Department, dismantling teachers unions, and safeguarding children from leftist radicals, their position remains disjointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":2018969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}