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January 4, 2011

An Interview with Laurie H. Rogers; Author of "How the Education Establishment Has Betrayed America and What You Can Do About It"

Michael F. Shaughnessy:

1) Who is being "Betrayed" by the public school system in America?

The education establishment is betraying the following groups:

  • The children, who aren't getting the education they need;
  • Parents, who struggle to manage bored and frustrated children, who must pay for several college remedial classes, and who sometimes wind up with students who have given up and dropped out;
  • Teachers, who are micromanaged and disrespected in myriad ways by the bureaucracy and then blamed for the results;
  • Taxpayers, who pay hundreds of billions of dollars each year for a largely failing K-12 education system;
  • Businesses, which must recruit from other countries;
  • Government agencies and military organizations that struggle to fill critical jobs with qualified Americans;
  • The country, which teeters on the brink of economic and social disaster, crippled by a populace that is not acquiring sufficient skills or knowledge to properly run it or even to fully understand the challenges that face it.
The only people not being betrayed are those who feed off of our failing education system.

Unfortunately, that group gets larger every year.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 4, 2011 1:02 AM
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