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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

A Right-Wing Delusion: ESSA is "leftist and progressive" victory. | BustED Pencils

A Right-Wing Delusion: ESSA is "leftist and progressive" victory. | BustED Pencils:

A Right-Wing Delusion: ESSA is “leftist and progressive” victory.


Since the passage of the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Every Student Succeeds Act)—pundits are either confused or simply just acting out their part in this never ending nightmare.
Being a “leftist” I typically don’t read The Pulse 2016.  However a short post from The Pulsewas sent my way this morning. And so instead of ignoring this right wing propaganda I read 
If conservative pundits continue to believe that education policy in the United States is being driven by some progressive ideology that John Dewey set in motion in the early 20th century—an ideology supposedly embraced by Obama and Duncan) a true understanding of what’s really happening will be forever out of reach.

As my friend Paul Thomas pointed out this morning, “the evidence is overwhelming that U.S. public education committed in the first decades of the 1900s to efficiency and core knowledge, and schools have been governed within those ideologies (traditional, conservative) unto this day.”
However, I more convinced than ever that this silly discussion of whether progressive A Right-Wing Delusion: ESSA is "leftist and progressive" victory. | BustED Pencils: