On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> I certainly don't know how bad things are. I always assume that things are
> more or less the same as when I attended California public schools in the
> 60s and 70s, which it now appears was something of a golden age for public
> education. No one thought so at the time. When I hear how bad things are
> now, I find it hard to believe, but the worst tales are often confirmed by
> experience (i.e., talking to a 25 year-old professional who has no idea when
> the Vietnam war took place, and who believes that the Civil War occurred in
> the 1960s.)
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:03 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Art is not a "goodie."
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>> You have no clue how bad things have gotten in the schools.
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>> They are currently being run by bureaucrats who have no knowledge of
>> content but understand "faster" "earlier" and "more", the sum of which
>> equals success. And they are the ones who set curriculum and decide whether
>> teachers are competent.
>>
>> Joanna
>>
>> Agreed however about
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Sent: Friday, June 3, 2011 11:28:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Liberals
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>> Dennis makes a good point. I want to suggest that for a century U.S.
>> education (and probably Europeant systems as well) has been grounded on
>> a disastrously false Theory of Schooling, and that instead of throwing
>> stupid spitballs and childish squawks at teachers and schools we should
>> be making a serious attempt to define that theory and to subject it to
>> critique. As a first approximation:
>>
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