Last week, the Nation’s Report Card revealed seven out of 10 students are not being prepared for citizenship—a pattern that’s nearly a decade old. Most American children attend assigned public schools. Is it any wonder such an undemocratic process fails to achieve a democratic purpose? Read more
Has Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton talked to Rob Reiner lately? Clinton has just proposed a $10 billion federal version of actor/director Reiner’s ill-fated universal preschool initiative that was trounced 61% to 39% by blue-state California voters last year. Worse, Clinton defends her proposal by using the same discredited arguments that were made by Reiner and his allies.
Just-released civics results on the Nation's Report Card show that the American public education system fails the common good by failing to teach core principles of a free society.
Just weeks ago, Stanford University released the most comprehensive review to date of California’s public education system, written at the bi-partisan request of legislative majority leadership, Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, and the Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence. Think critics have the decency to let the ink dry before stonewalling reform recommendations? Think again.
