Saul Silver
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I got a promotion from Lecturer of English to Lecturer of Exercise Science, P.E. Coach and Club Coordinator. Less teaching hours, but more responsibility and higher paycheck.
The following is something I have been thinking about off and on for a while.
IMO(I am not impartial) the schools are not failing. Compared to other OECD countries we have improved over the last 10 years. We are above average in math and reading and average in science. ESL students and kids who just don't care(I have seen students draw pokemon on standarized tests) skew our scores. American women score the highest in the world and our post-secondary education is #1.
But seriously- teachers. The second those libs started letting teachers into schools instead of real professionals, things went to hell in a hand basket.
I've always thought of schools as businesses; some are better managed than others. However, I think perspective is important and not basing everything on theory. I'd be curious to see someone with an MBA run a school instead of a MEd.
2. Secondary education needs to be drastically improved.
I live in South Korea, who has excellent math and science scores, but the price they pay is crazy. Many kids get out of school only to go to a private cram-school til as late as 11pm. As a matter of fact, some sort of afterschool education is essentially expected. Getting into the right college means you have it made here (they all know the rankings.), but amusingly, once you get in college is a breeze compared to high school.