Public_Education

Public Education Adults remember” how tough it when they were in school,” but growing evidence supports the public’s position that school, while getting easier, ignores the increasing knowledge base needed to compete in a high tech marketplace. Parents and taxpayers see falling test scores, inclusion, affective learning, self – esteem training, and values clarification lessons as proof that schools are not teaching as much material as they used to. Furthermore, they believe the material being taught is not as difficult as it should be. Parents and taxpayers demand that “basic skills” regain the attention of educators. They wonder how a person who lacks the skill to complete an employment application managed to graduate from a public high school. This is a strong perception in the community, one educator would be unwise to dismiss as “hate mongering from the radical right.” The lack of academic standards in the public schools is profound. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 1930;” most of the 1 million white illiterates and 2 million black illiterates were people over the age of 50 who had never been to school. By 1990, 30 to 35 million American citizens could not read. Most are people under 50 who have been to schools, school, public, education, choice, private, parents, vouchers, students, charter, states, religious, children, should, american, system, state, new, been, voucher, teachers, standards, shanker, programs, policy, one, funds, educational, another, support, rosen, program, local, just, it’s