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Article #624849Re: 1958 Crisis in education
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:58
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:58
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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:07:38 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > >> Previously, we discussed education in the newsgroup. Many of >> us here were in school during the time frame referenced by >> the following articles. >> >> LIFE reviewed the state of the nation's schools in 1958. >> >> It also compares Soviet schools. >> >> https://books.google.com/books?id=PlYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20breck&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false >> >> part II of the series >> https://books.google.com/books?id=S1YEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20mar%2031%2C%201958&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q&f=false > > As long as there are politicians in the US there will be loud > lamenting of the sorry state of American education. And yet somehow > we keep producing wonders. > There are a lot of good schools, and many bright kids will succeed no matter what the school is like, but many schools are set up to turn out failures. Of course home/neighborhood environment also plays a big part, and I'm not sure what the solution is except to pull the kids out of their environment. -- Pete
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