Ed Schools Create Problems Which Ensure Failure

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"secondary and high-school education in this country has too often become a sinecure of last resort for people who have no business teaching in the first place.
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The heck with reading, writing and arithmetic -- these days, it’s all about “strategies for learning.”
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Today a high-school diploma too often simply signifies four years spent under adult supervision in juvenile-detention centers for the largely nonviolent
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The fact is that education in America has been turned on its head. It’s not about book learning any more. Instead, it’s about allowing teachers to stick another gold star of self-esteem on their resumes
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the vicious cycle of bogus achievement leading to invincible ignorance."

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How education schools fail the nation
Michael A. Walsh
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:56 AM, August 25, 2011
Posted: 10:45 PM, August 24, 2011