Progressivism Masquerading as Education
A couple of weeks ago the results of a nationwide history test given at various grade levels were released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To virtually no one’s surprise, only 20 percent of fourth graders, 17 percent of eighth graders and 12 percent of high school seniors demonstrated “proficiency” on the exam. Most Americans, if we’re being honest, are equally incompetent, if not more so, regarding basic economics. Throw in a lack of proficiency regarding the Constitution, and you get a trifecta of ignorance that ought to embarrass any First World nation. Yet if the Maryland public school system is any indication, we’re beyond embarrassment: “environmental literacy” will now be required in order to graduate high school.
Understand, no reasonable person has a problem with teaching children to be responsible stewards of the planet. But anyone who has watched the steady evolution of public schools from places of education into propaganda centers for the progressive worldview knows exactly what is going on here. The State Board of Education hides the truth by saying there are no specifics regarding what is to be taught, but Maryland Governor, Democrat Martin O’Malley, lets the cat out of the progressive bag when he notes the law with serve as “a foundation for green jobs.”
You know which country had a romance with green jobs? Spain. Know what they discovered? For every green job created, 2.1 non-green jobs were lost. Spain’s unemployment rate is currently 22 percent. And then there’s Great Britain. Three weeks ago, one of their largest utility companies, Scottish Electric, announced that the gas and electricity bills of five million customers would go up by a whopping 19 and 10 percent respectively, beginning August first. Six other major power providers expected to follow suit.
Why is it happening? Part of the reason is higher wholesale costs for power, but the other reason is depressingly familiar. Raymond Jack, Scottish Power’s chief executive: “The rising burden of non-energy costs faced by Britain’s energy suppliers — including the cost of meeting government environmental and social programs and the cost of distributing electricity on the national grid — has also placed further upward pressure on energy bills.” The result? In Britain, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) points out that many of the country’s poor will be faced with a choice between “heating and eating” next winter.
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To virtually no one's surprise, only 20 percent of fourth graders, 17 percent of eighth graders and 12 percent of high school seniors demonstrated “proficiency” on the exam. Most Americans, if we're being honest, are equally incompetent, if not more so
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Results released June 14 showed 22 percent of fourth-grade students and 18 percent of eighth-graders demonstrating proficiency. The test quizzed students on topics including colonization, the American Revolution, the Civil War and the contemporary
Maryland school test scores up, Baltimore sees drop
Maryland School Assessment scores are up statewide, but Baltimore saw lower scores as the city boosted testing security in the wake of cheating at several schools.
Scores were released Wednesday for the tests taken by 365,000 students in third through eighth grades. Maryland elementary school students neared a 90 percent proficiency in reading and stayed steady at 86 percent proficiency in math. Middle school students reached 84 percent proficiency in reading and 74 percent proficiency in math.
Sixty-one percent of Baltimore students are proficient in math — a 5-percentage-point drop — and 69 percent are proficient in reading — a 3-percentage-point decline. Schools CEO Andres Alonso says scores over the past seven years show real progress, but it would be “naive” to think that security changes didn’t have an impact.
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