Top 10 Reasons Bernie Sanders’ Education Policies Are Light Years Ahead of Everyone Else’s
For most of my life, the United States has been neglecting its public school children – especially the black and brown ones.
Since the mid 1970s, instead of integrating our schools, we’ve been slowly resegregating them on the basis of race and social class.
Since the 1980s, instead of measuring academic success by the satisfaction of an individuals curiosity and authentic learning, we’ve been slowly redefining it to mean nothing but achievement on standardized tests.
And since the 1990s, instead of making sure our schools meet the needs of all students, we’ve been slowly allowing charter schools to infect our system of authentic public education so that business interests are education’s organizing principle.
But now, for the first time in at least 60 years, a mainstream political candidate running for President has had the courage to go another way.
And that person is Bernie Sanders.
We didn’t see this with Barack Obama. We didn’t see it with Bill Clinton. We certainly CONTINUE READING: Top 10 Reasons Bernie Sanders’ Education Policies Are Light Years Ahead of Everyone Else’s | gadflyonthewallblog
