The days of the USA being a superpower are numbered.
If we don't make education one of our top priorities we won't even be in the worldwide top 10 pretty soon.
If you don't believe me, just watch the following video.
I'm hoping our new head of the Cabarrus County School Board, Holly Blackwelder, will see this too.
You can stop yelling "we're number 1" now.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Superpower no more.
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4 comments:
Good video, I question some of the fine tuning of the numbers but overall, it doesn't bode well for the states.
I blame the ineffective, bloated and overly bureaucratic public school monopoly...:)
Mandatory viewing for all elected officials especially the school board. Thanks Thierry!!
As we all know the No Child Left Behind Federal Initiative was created to close this gap but instead intimidated teachers with unreachable goals and threatened administrators with commandeering their schools and firing everyone. The essence of this program was murdered with bureaucracy. Part of the problem lies with attitudes against change or trying anything new which gave the enemy an excuse to inflict high standards that left everyone out. We need to take a different approach.
It is inevitable that Americans realize we are not king of the mountain anymore. Countries like China and India are gaining ground. We have to acknowledge the whole world, not dominate it. I'm not advocating communism but there is a new world order and it's exciting to see.
patricia- I have about 10 teachers in my family and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM said exactly the same thing about NCLB. I've written extensively about this nonsense on my blog.
As to the "attitudes against change": you can thank the teachers unions, NEA and yellow bellied administrators for the current state of things. Nothing keeps people focused on keeping things the same like the fear that folks will find out that there's something better out there...
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