- LOOK IN THE MIRROR
- E PLURIBUS UNUM
- THE CONTINUING BURDEN OF THE SIXTIES
- AMERICAN UNION AND THE NEW WORLD DISORDER OR JUSTICE POSTPONED AND POSTPONED AND....DISTORTED
- DEAD WHITE MEN AND LIVING IDEAS
- THE CRYBABY SOCIETY: CRIPPLING LITIGIOUSNESS
- SCHOOL PRAYER: ANSWERED!
- VALUE-FREE EDUCATION?
- COMMERCIALISM
- DOES EVERYBODY REALLY NEED TO GO TO COLLEGE? APPRENTICESHIP AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
- GOOD SPORTS
- "ELITISM!" CRY THE MEDIOCRITITES
- PARENTAL DEADWOOD
- HEAD START - A REASONABLE BEGINNING
- THE REAL SECRET TO EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS: MATERNAL SCHOOLS
- WHO WORKS AT WHAT?
- CITIZENS' EDUCATION LOBBY
- LEARNING FROM OTHER CULTURES
- THE FOLLY OF RATINGS
- COSTLY AMERICAN CONCEPTS
- NATIONAL CALENDAR
- PARADIGM SHIFT
American society needs education reform. To say it truly wants education reform is more problematical because American culture resists the rigorous education that prevails in the schools of our world wide competitors from Ireland through to Japan.
As a society built on immigration, America has been a proverbial melting pot, flawed perhaps in various ways, but a rich amalgam, nevertheless, and one that has blessed the world through the dynamic national personality that developed here.
Throughout its history America has been the beneficiary of a brain drain from foreign shores to our country, the most spectacular probably having been the towering intellect of Albert Einstein, along with scores of other great intellects who fled the moral insanity of Nazi Germany.
Now, however, the positive (for America) brain drain has gone into reverse, with an outflow, a brain drain from America back to the old world, driven in no small part by America’s broken public education, a system sorely in need of education reform.
The question our nation must face is: Do we have not just the will to change, but the energy to do it ?
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