There is Hope for Education in America! Andrew Campanella Tells Us Why

"We can't do this to kids. We are paying far too much money for a public education system that isn't working," says Vice President of National School Choice Week Andrew Campanella.

Everyone knows that the U.S. education system is in trouble. Campanella offers a few words on how school choice week can help with promoting "access to better options and empowering parents and kids."

According to Campanella, the U.S. ranks 35th in the world in math and literacy.

"Other countries are not just nipping at our heels educationally, they've lapped us," Campanella says.

Campanella contends that school choice offers real solutions to raising the bar and educating the next generation, and that it's not just empty words.

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[soonerdave01]

Public education in america is a roaring success. No need to change anything.

It produces exactly the type of citizens it's creators intended: politically correct, inside-the-box thinkers with herd-mentality who look upon the federal government as a third parent.

[TheTubbtubb]

But what about teh teacherz!?!?! They need the jobs! The problem is funding! Just throw money at the problem until it goes away! What we need are stronger teachers unions. A small turnover rate for teachers makes them feel worried about getting fired. If teachers couldn't be fired, they wouldn't worry so much and they would perform better. More regulation is needed to, preferably by a centralized planning agency in the federal gov't. If you disagree, you HATE children.

/libtard

[Sweyn78]

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[4lifejackhammer]

@TylerNutify not true at all; the profits encourage more school creation, and specialization, resulting in schools teaching many different styles with varying student/teacher ratios. Maybe its smaller classes that cost more, or maybe someone is smart enough to pay cheaply for a list of materials and tests; No single entity can teach the best way for each person to learn; it is simply impossible.

[4lifejackhammer]

@eirefrance look at the teacher's union. The motive for maximizing profits already exists; the question is how to do this in a way that best supports education. The top down approach is bad; I had to re-learn history, and i would not have been motivated to do so if not for "evil" people like Glenn Beck challenging the conventional history. Beck is wrong on a lot of things, history included, but the fact is that his profit motives encouraged me to learn more than 4 teachers wasting much more time

[PanzerDivisionBOM]

@soonerdave01

Or, for about 1/3 of all US children, a second parent.

[denisonM]

@4lifejackhammer exactly.

[XCritonX]

@miketv You are very wrong. The focus of public school "improvements" is to try various tactics without realizing that the strategy of having a top down government run education system is all wrong. With out the right strategy no tactical changes will be successful.

You probably just didn't understand the quote. Don't worry, not many people understand the whole strategy vs tactical thing. I coach business people who don't understand it, some never will.

[4lifejackhammer]

More schools=more specialization. Not every student learns the same way. The public school system today focuses on those who think quickly, discriminating against over half the population who take in information in a way that is slower, but more likely to be retained. It favors obedience vs. knowledge. Teaching methods by teachers still favor either groups or individual work. Free-market in education will mean schools actually suited to students. Public schools will always discriminate.

[miketv]

@XCritonX I agree, but your Sun Tzu has no application here. That's just your distortion of a quote.

[XCritonX]

@HybridD91 Dont forget that the Soviet Union also had public education, an even worse version than America had. Also, at the time the US education system was not under federal control, so their was at least some competence in the system.

[HybridD91]

@XCritonX Public education wasn't flawed enough for America to use it against the Soviet Union but I do agree that school choice is a good idea.