tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470844584003109308.post-44746545143663996682009-07-14T17:55:00.018-04:002009-07-15T16:14:58.188-04:00The Education Establishment has debased the country’s high schools to the point where graduates can hardly be presumed to have a 9th grade education. A recent survey asked Arizona high school students, “What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?” (29.1% did not know; in addition 12.1% got it wrong). Dare we even presume that high school graduates have a 6th grade education?...<span style="font-weight:bold;">Now Obama wants to spend $12 billion to make community colleges do what high schools should be doing. Why not make HIGH SCHOOLS do what high schools should be doing?? And save $12 billion!</span>....Probably the goal is to make ever more professors and administrators ever more dependent on government. The pay-to-play part might be making sure students encounter only PC views... (Cliff Notes: the decline of American education is surreal and fantastical. Any book or article that told the exact truth about this descent would be classed as science fiction--<span style="font-style:italic;">cf.</span> "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." For a peek into the man-made darkness, see my sci-fi article <a href="www.improve-education.org/id60.html">"36: The Assault On Math.</a>")<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4470844584003109308-4474654514366399668?l=educationimproved.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bruce Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02881671487606709421noreply@blogger.com0