Most media outlets shy away from inside stories on how our schools operate. They give a dishonest view of how the money is spent and how the schools are performing.
For an inside look on the Shaker Heights school system see this interesting letter to the Free Times, its a good read:
http://www.freetimes.com/story/4490
Shaker Schools Can Teach Lakewood Schools A Lesson
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nice
it is all cultural.
John Stossel recently did a report. Predominantly white students in affluent DC suburb at a highly praised school were just as stupid and unruly. At least half of kids in nice places like Rocky River, Avon Lake, Sheffield Lake are part-time white trash.
Less is spent per student in Westlake, Bay Village, Lakewood, Rocky River, etc than in Cleveland.
Here is an interesting excerpt from slide 17 of Closing the Collapse Gap
Slide [17] The Soviet education system was generally quite excellent. It produced an overwhelmingly literate population and many great specialists. The education was free at all levels, but higher education sometimes paid a stipend, and often provided room and board. The educational system held together quite well after the economy collapsed. The problem was that the graduates had no jobs to look forward to upon graduation. Many of them lost their way.
The higher education system in the United States is good at many things – government and industrial research, team sports, vocational training... Primary and secondary education fails to achieve in 12 years what Soviet schools generally achieved in 8. The massive scale and expense of maintaining these institutions is likely to prove too much for the post-collapse environment. Illiteracy is already a problem in the United States, and we should expect it to get a lot worse..
On the other hand, it is reported there is or was no "special ed" in Russia or much of eastern Europe. It is said that for decades kids who were even a little slow had a great chance of being institutionalized in state orphanages/mental asylums.
It is ok. The schools succeed in strengthening our cultural imperative. These students will go on to be excellent American Consumers of stuff that is difficult to repair, quickly forgotten about, or thrown away within a short time, or very energy intensive. Plus fast food.
A few years ago there was a big story about a teacher shortage in Cleveland. So the school system recruited several dozen teachers from India. I haven't found any follow up stories. The perspectives of these teachers must be interesting.
John Stossel recently did a report. Predominantly white students in affluent DC suburb at a highly praised school were just as stupid and unruly. At least half of kids in nice places like Rocky River, Avon Lake, Sheffield Lake are part-time white trash.
Less is spent per student in Westlake, Bay Village, Lakewood, Rocky River, etc than in Cleveland.
Here is an interesting excerpt from slide 17 of Closing the Collapse Gap
Slide [17] The Soviet education system was generally quite excellent. It produced an overwhelmingly literate population and many great specialists. The education was free at all levels, but higher education sometimes paid a stipend, and often provided room and board. The educational system held together quite well after the economy collapsed. The problem was that the graduates had no jobs to look forward to upon graduation. Many of them lost their way.
The higher education system in the United States is good at many things – government and industrial research, team sports, vocational training... Primary and secondary education fails to achieve in 12 years what Soviet schools generally achieved in 8. The massive scale and expense of maintaining these institutions is likely to prove too much for the post-collapse environment. Illiteracy is already a problem in the United States, and we should expect it to get a lot worse..
On the other hand, it is reported there is or was no "special ed" in Russia or much of eastern Europe. It is said that for decades kids who were even a little slow had a great chance of being institutionalized in state orphanages/mental asylums.
It is ok. The schools succeed in strengthening our cultural imperative. These students will go on to be excellent American Consumers of stuff that is difficult to repair, quickly forgotten about, or thrown away within a short time, or very energy intensive. Plus fast food.
A few years ago there was a big story about a teacher shortage in Cleveland. So the school system recruited several dozen teachers from India. I haven't found any follow up stories. The perspectives of these teachers must be interesting.