It’s not the department of education, it’s the department of NO education. When I think back on some of the stupid useless shit I was forced to learn I’d say the DOE should’ve been shutdown decades ago. “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,”-Paul Simon.
When I came out of High School and don’t get me wrong, I thought I was getting a decent education? I passed class room test but scored low on the SAT’S? Those test questions I never learned in school? What a disconnect! However, I came out Liberal! Not any more!! It must be so very challenging for students today to learn just the basics and advoid the indoctration, this should not be in our school system. I have seen so many GOOD teachers leave the field because of Common Core program. So I say yes, get rid of the Federal Department of Education and bring it back to the States & it’s people, where it actually belongs. DOE is part of the bloated Government and I don’t feel sorry for the Unions that stop working for the students and money became thier priority!
When the Board of Education can teach the real HISTORY OF AMERICA BOTH GOOD AND BAD, WE DON’T NEED THEM. CURRENTLY, IT’S JUST ANOTHER EXTENSION OF THE LEFT WING IDEALOGY.
Thank God we didn’t have that garbage going on in the 1970’s. Things have gotten out of hand. College’s like Berkeley and Columbia, Harvard, etc, have kowtowed to the woke policies of the left, including shutting down free speech if you’re a conservative. Shutting down the DOE was a great 1st step. Time to clean house. Getting rid of these woke Professor’s will be a huge plus, as well. If the college students don’t like it, too bad. There’s always help needed at the fast food joints.
It is just another bloated federal department. Reagan actually wanted to shut it down but didn’t. Carter is the one who started it. Over the years that department has just gotten more and more bloated.
Snicker, you are correct. The States all ?? have their own Edu departments too without many controls. I remember when, in Michigan, in the 90s a Edu director was let go resigned ?? and we still paid his remaining salary of over 400,000.
Arkansas has school choice and my grandkids went to a classical academy. They had two years of Latin, read the Great Book, studied ancient philosophers. I wish we had that here in Wisconsin, but I’m sure it will come.
Baltimore is so bad in the Democratisch-Marxist State wher 2 counties and Baltimore City control the elections and Plantation dwellers are told who to vote for, (all the education they need, following Den instruction) and keeping these “cash burning” idiots in office. The schools graduate these individuals that can’t spell their names, but burn more Federal Funds than USAID! And they majored in stupidity! And they know how to vote DEM. Please cancel out the Fed Dept of Education and cancel all pay and benefits. We look completely ignorant to the rest of the world.
The Communist News Network (CNN) should be tossed out, like the DOE. The stealing from American taxpayers must end now. All of these corrupt leftist agencies must be terminated.
“The United States Department of Education began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979.”
“The Associated Press reports that a study from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), focused on 9-year-old students, found the average score for math fell 7 points, which marked the first decrease in the history of the study’s testing regimen. Reading fell 5 points which was the largest drop in 30 years.”
“After years of Common Core standards, Americans students math skills are eroding, according to a new report.ACT, which administers standardized exams used for college entrance, said that students who took the 2018 exam had the lowest readiness for college math since 2004. Common Core, launched in 201o during the administration of Barak Obama.”
“THE ATLANTIC-The U.S. education system is mediocre compared to the rest of the world, according to an international ranking of OECD countries. More than half a million 15-year-olds around the world took the Programme for International Student Assessment in 2012. The test, which is administered every three years and focuses largely on math, but includes minor sections in science and reading, is often used as a snapshot of the global state of education. This year, the U.S. scores below average in math and ranks 17th among the 34 OECD countries. ”
“WASHINGTON The United States spends more than other developed nations on its students’ education each year. Despite the spending, U.S. students still trail their rivals on international tests.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development writes in its annual report that brand-new and experienced teachers alike in the United States out-earn most of their counterparts around the globe. The United States spent more than $11,000 per elementary student in 2010 and more than $12,000 per high school student. When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.”
“On America’s latest exams (the National Assessment of Educational Progress), one-third or fewer of eighth-grade students were proficient in math, science, or reading. Our high-school graduation rate continues to hover just shy of 70 percent, according to a 2010 report by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, and many of those students who do graduate aren’t prepared for college. ACT, the respected national organization that administers college-admissions tests, recently found that 76 percent of our high-school graduates “were not adequately prepared academically for first-year college courses.”
“The World Economic Forum ranks us 48th in math and science education. On international math tests, the United States is near the bottom of industrialized countries (the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), and we’re in the middle in science and reading. Similarly, although we used to have one of the top percentages of high-school and college graduates among the OECD countries, we’re now in the basement for high-school and the middle for college graduates. And these figures don’t take into account the leaps in educational attainment in China, Singapore, and many developing countries.”
“Project Baltimore analyzed 2017 state test scores released this fall. We paged through 16,000 lines of data and uncovered this: Of Baltimore City’s 39 High Schools, 13 had zero students proficient in math. Digging further, we found another six high schools where one percent tested proficient. Add it up – in half the high schools in Baltimore City, 3804 students took the state test, 14 were proficient in math.”
Karl Marx–“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get alo
Granted, the DoE isn’t perfect; Bush’s “no child left behind” missed a lot. But, you’re happy to have your kids go to private schools with no curriculum oversight? Who’s going to decide on teacher qualifications now? You’re happy to pay tuition (Trump isn’t going to lower your taxes to make up for it)?
Department of sexual confusion and low test scores.
Only 13% of 8th graders students in public school were proficient in History in national testing in 2023. Don’t say because of covid. 13% is the same low score as in 2014. It has never been better than 24%. Way back when.
It’s not the department of education, it’s the department of NO education. When I think back on some of the stupid useless shit I was forced to learn I’d say the DOE should’ve been shutdown decades ago. “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,”-Paul Simon.
Wilddog, I like your posts, their up-lifting and true on all your past post
Thank you.
When I came out of High School and don’t get me wrong, I thought I was getting a decent education? I passed class room test but scored low on the SAT’S? Those test questions I never learned in school? What a disconnect! However, I came out Liberal! Not any more!! It must be so very challenging for students today to learn just the basics and advoid the indoctration, this should not be in our school system. I have seen so many GOOD teachers leave the field because of Common Core program. So I say yes, get rid of the Federal Department of Education and bring it back to the States & it’s people, where it actually belongs. DOE is part of the bloated Government and I don’t feel sorry for the Unions that stop working for the students and money became thier priority!
Shut it down, and bring cursive back in to the schools.
DOE is destroying American Schools due to their idea’s. And as far as truth, where are the truths from DOE
When the Board of Education can teach the real HISTORY OF AMERICA BOTH GOOD AND BAD, WE DON’T NEED THEM. CURRENTLY, IT’S JUST ANOTHER EXTENSION OF THE LEFT WING IDEALOGY.
Thank God we didn’t have that garbage going on in the 1970’s. Things have gotten out of hand. College’s like Berkeley and Columbia, Harvard, etc, have kowtowed to the woke policies of the left, including shutting down free speech if you’re a conservative. Shutting down the DOE was a great 1st step. Time to clean house. Getting rid of these woke Professor’s will be a huge plus, as well. If the college students don’t like it, too bad. There’s always help needed at the fast food joints.
It is just another bloated federal department. Reagan actually wanted to shut it down but didn’t. Carter is the one who started it. Over the years that department has just gotten more and more bloated.
She is nothing but a woke ass. National Teachers Union is an out and out joke! Needs to be shut down. Leave it too the states!!!
Snicker, you are correct. The States all ?? have their own Edu departments too without many controls. I remember when, in Michigan, in the 90s a Edu director was let go resigned ?? and we still paid his remaining salary of over 400,000.
Arkansas has school choice and my grandkids went to a classical academy. They had two years of Latin, read the Great Book, studied ancient philosophers. I wish we had that here in Wisconsin, but I’m sure it will come.
Baltimore is so bad in the Democratisch-Marxist State wher 2 counties and Baltimore City control the elections and Plantation dwellers are told who to vote for, (all the education they need, following Den instruction) and keeping these “cash burning” idiots in office. The schools graduate these individuals that can’t spell their names, but burn more Federal Funds than USAID! And they majored in stupidity! And they know how to vote DEM. Please cancel out the Fed Dept of Education and cancel all pay and benefits. We look completely ignorant to the rest of the world.
The Communist News Network (CNN) should be tossed out, like the DOE. The stealing from American taxpayers must end now. All of these corrupt leftist agencies must be terminated.
“The United States Department of Education began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979.”
“The Associated Press reports that a study from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), focused on 9-year-old students, found the average score for math fell 7 points, which marked the first decrease in the history of the study’s testing regimen. Reading fell 5 points which was the largest drop in 30 years.”
“After years of Common Core standards, Americans students math skills are eroding, according to a new report.ACT, which administers standardized exams used for college entrance, said that students who took the 2018 exam had the lowest readiness for college math since 2004. Common Core, launched in 201o during the administration of Barak Obama.”
“THE ATLANTIC-The U.S. education system is mediocre compared to the rest of the world, according to an international ranking of OECD countries. More than half a million 15-year-olds around the world took the Programme for International Student Assessment in 2012. The test, which is administered every three years and focuses largely on math, but includes minor sections in science and reading, is often used as a snapshot of the global state of education. This year, the U.S. scores below average in math and ranks 17th among the 34 OECD countries. ”
“WASHINGTON The United States spends more than other developed nations on its students’ education each year. Despite the spending, U.S. students still trail their rivals on international tests.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development writes in its annual report that brand-new and experienced teachers alike in the United States out-earn most of their counterparts around the globe. The United States spent more than $11,000 per elementary student in 2010 and more than $12,000 per high school student. When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.”
“On America’s latest exams (the National Assessment of Educational Progress), one-third or fewer of eighth-grade students were proficient in math, science, or reading. Our high-school graduation rate continues to hover just shy of 70 percent, according to a 2010 report by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, and many of those students who do graduate aren’t prepared for college. ACT, the respected national organization that administers college-admissions tests, recently found that 76 percent of our high-school graduates “were not adequately prepared academically for first-year college courses.”
“The World Economic Forum ranks us 48th in math and science education. On international math tests, the United States is near the bottom of industrialized countries (the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), and we’re in the middle in science and reading. Similarly, although we used to have one of the top percentages of high-school and college graduates among the OECD countries, we’re now in the basement for high-school and the middle for college graduates. And these figures don’t take into account the leaps in educational attainment in China, Singapore, and many developing countries.”
“Project Baltimore analyzed 2017 state test scores released this fall. We paged through 16,000 lines of data and uncovered this: Of Baltimore City’s 39 High Schools, 13 had zero students proficient in math. Digging further, we found another six high schools where one percent tested proficient. Add it up – in half the high schools in Baltimore City, 3804 students took the state test, 14 were proficient in math.”
Karl Marx–“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get alo
Karl Marx–“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.”
Granted, the DoE isn’t perfect; Bush’s “no child left behind” missed a lot. But, you’re happy to have your kids go to private schools with no curriculum oversight? Who’s going to decide on teacher qualifications now? You’re happy to pay tuition (Trump isn’t going to lower your taxes to make up for it)?
Sandi, you are a true useful idiot for the teacher’s union.
Department of sexual confusion and low test scores.
Only 13% of 8th graders students in public school were proficient in History in national testing in 2023. Don’t say because of covid. 13% is the same low score as in 2014. It has never been better than 24%. Way back when.