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Comment by nradov

8 hours ago

Our next "Sputnik Moment" is coming. At some point we're going to be forced to reorient our education system away from performative progressive ideology and towards achieving practical results.

https://www.space.com/10437-sputnik-moment.html

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yardie  7 hours ago

> reorient our education system away from performative progressive ideology and towards achieving practical results.

NCLB was cooked up by Republicans along with defunding schools, school choice, and the homeschooling. You are correct that it is performative but there is nothing progressive about the last 20 years of public education.

rtkwe  7 hours ago

You're pointing the the wrong direction there, look at the groups actually attacking and refusing to fund public schools better in the US... The actual issue is the systematic dismantling of public education for religious and ideological reasons; evolution, climate change, vaccinations all ideologically convenient to the religious conservative right in the US.

  • nradov  7 hours ago

    We need adequate funding for public schools but there is no real correlation between funding levels and student outcomes. A lot of that money is simply being frittered away. One of the best ways to start would be to destroy teacher's unions because they usually act in ways contrary to students' best interests.

    • rtkwe  7 hours ago

      Going to need one hell of a citation on that first claim because there's a lot of evidence showing reality follows the opposite intuitive correlation, additional funding does provide better outcomes. [0]

      > destroy teacher's unions

      States have tried doing essentially that and it's not worked for decades. So I say we should actually fund schools, pay and support teachers like we actually want educated kids before we try yet again to blame underpaid, undersupplied teachers trying to wrangle ballooning class sizes of rowdy kids.

      [0] https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/how-money-matter...

    • esseph  7 hours ago

      I would argue the educational teaching criterias from the states (and fed) are the problem with educational outcome, not the teachers unions.