Getting Back to Teaching in the Primary and Secondary Schools
I suspect in the language of Education Secretaries, it means we need more bean-counters to count the beans before they opt out, cutting short their twelve-year sentence to crappy schools. Counting, grading, segregating and assorting are all things that make sense on an assembly-line just before the boxes are shipped.
Bill Bennett and Rod Paige just co-authored an editorial in the Washington Post that they titled
“Why We Need a National School Test.”
Bennett was Education Secretary under Reagan and Paige sat in the same chair for George Bush.
They each have great faith in numbers. Numbers, as in how can we ‘find better and more efficient ways to produce an educated population and close the achievement gaps in our education system.’
Those are their exact words. Efficient ways to produce, instead of creative ways to encourage what is already there—the desire to know. Young Americans spend a minimum of twelve years on Bennett’s and Paige’s production lines. An agonizing percentage break out …