School "Reform" Ignores Glaring Problem: Outdated Curriculum

Sunday 3 July 2011

by: Marion Brady, Information Age Publishing | Book Excerpt

From "What's Worth Learning?"
Information Age Publishing,
Charlotte, North Carolina, 2011

American education isn't up to the challenge. The evidence is inescapable. Millions of kids walk away from school long before they're scheduled to graduate. Millions more stay but disengage. Half of those entering the teaching profession soon abandon it. Administrators play musical chairs. Barbed wire surrounds many schools, and police patrol hallways. School bond levies usually fail. Superficial fads - old ideas resurrected with new names - come and go with depressing regularity. Think tanks crank out millions of words of ignored advice, and foundations spend billions to promote seemingly sound ideas that make little or no difference. About half a trillion dollars a year are invested in education, but most adults remember little and make practical use of even less of what they once learned in thousands of hours of instruction.