Dismantling the Department of Education Week in Education
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It’s difficult to overstate the significance of this. If Trump manages to do this, everything is changed.
- Trump Appears to Take First Steps Towards Dismantling Dept. of Education
- Teacher Union Chief Randi Weingarten Panics Over Idea of Trump Closing Dept. of Education
Education needs serious reform.
- ‘Intersectional Feminist’ Class at Ithaca College Teaches How to ‘Resist Abortion Bans’
- U. North Dakota Prof Says Monuments to American Pioneers ‘Reinforce White Supremacy’
- NYU ‘Climate Action’ Event Features ‘Plant Meditation’
Getting results.
- U. Arkansas-Walmart BIPOC-Only Program Paused After Equal Protection Project Challenge
- Santa Clara U Opens Program to Applicants of All Races After Equal Protection Project Challenge
This is still a huge problem.
- Survey: 83 Percent of Jewish College Students in the U.S. Have Experienced Antisemitism Since Oct. 7
- Students for Justice in Palestine at Bowdoin College Form Encampment, Occupy Campus Building
- Cooper Union Must Face Lawsuit Over Its Failure to Address Pro-Hamas Protests, Court Rules
Solid plan.
The Trump effect on campus is hilarious.
- Academics Whine About Trump During Forum at the University of Pennsylvania
- Purdue Student Newspaper Deletes Names of Anti-Israel Protesters to Protect Students From Trump
- Coalitions Are Forming to Fight Trump’s Ban on DEI in Higher Education
This story is crazy.
- Judge Tells Louisiana State U. to Return Law Prof to the Classroom
- Appeals Court Blocks Order to Reinstate Louisiana State U. Prof Who Was Removed Over Speech
Watch this.
Not smart.
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As a start, it should be renamed Department of Public Education. Then it would be referred to as DoPES. It has the benefit of not only being catchy, but accurate.
Do we really want ‘the moron’ to have anything to with education? Hey maybe we should name it the Dept of MAGA where you learn about the Bible and creationism and how only white people are qualified to do complicated jobs!
The moron has posted.
It must be uniquely satisfying to argue in favor of wasting taxpayer money, supporting alien rapists and murderers, and making Americans less healthy. Can’t wait till we get to all the other departments.
Oh so now trying to rape a woman is bad? I thought the redhat crowd was ok with that. Oh well
“ Do we really want ‘the moron’ to have anything to with education?”
Gosh, you’re right. That’s the single best argument for returning control of public education to states and localities that I’ve heard yet.
Thank you for your helpful insight into this matter.
What time does your mom bring your pizza pockets and milk down to the basement? Don’t get crumbs in your keyboard, remember!
“Do we really want ‘the moron’ to have anything to with education?”
“Moron?” Why would we want you to have anything to do with education?
The Retard speaks!
Were you born this ignorant, or did something happen to cause this? Head trauma? Too many drugs?
Seriously, the Department of Education has done nothing of merit. ACTs and SATs, while they fluctuate over the near term, have remained effectively stagnant over the past 60 years despite the proliferation of prep courses and one-in-five students using them.
“Dismantling the Department of Education”
The DOE has managed to turn the achievement needle backwards.
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The only way to move forward and build up education in the country is to dismantle the department that is holding it back.
Every single metric in public education has been heading downward since the feds started meddling .
But then again, that would be typical of how public educators do their jobs; even though nobody can read at grade level or do basic arithmetic, its most important that everybody feels good about themselves and that we spend even MOAR money on education next year!
We have a local elementary school that prides itself in Social Justice. I want to make up some signs that say:
We can’t read-ee
We can’t write-ee
We just know the problem is Whitey.
Not backwards. The data is confusing, but there is good expansion for it. On the school tests, they’ve significantly ‘improved.’ That’s because they now teach for the test instead of teaching children to learn. That doesn’t include the wholesale cheating that many districts engage in.
Meanwhile, on the ACT & SAT tests, they’ve been, effectively, stagnant. That’s despite 1-in-5 children taking SAT and/or ACT prep courses (at $1500/36-hour class) to boost their scores.
Just thinking about the utterly unhinged rantings of Randi Weingarten…
Prediction: At some point during his term, Trump is going to 86 public sector unions. He’ll align himself with the position of FDR.
Read this 1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt (KY) County schools
https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html
Many of today’s high school students, and even college students could not pass this test. Bullitt County KY in 1912 was hardly and urban center like Chicago, New York, Philadelphia … . In 1912 the U.S. lacked a Department of Education. Bullitt County schools were almost surely not unionized. Yet their students were expected to know some basic facts and carry out simple calculations.
Readers here, try some of the questions yourself. You can find the answers here. You too tjv1156
https://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/schoolexam1912ans.html
To improve American public K-12 education, get rid of DOE and outlaw public school unions. Better yet abolish government schools all together, and give poor parents vouchers so they can choose a private school for their kids like the more affluent.
The fed DoEdu does not provide the best educational opportunity for students (as data proves). It provides perpetual job programs for adults. Abolish it.