Lack of Text books

[Anonymous]

What is your goal?

-High academic achievement?

-Excellent educational opportunity?

-Equity of educational opportunity?

[Anonymous]

First and foremost are uniformly high quality educational opportunities. If that's there, then the others will follow.

But aren't those questions that should have been asked decades ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First and foremost are uniformly high quality educational opportunities. If that's there, then the others will follow.

But aren't those questions that should have been asked decades ago?

I absolutely agree that we should have high quality education opportunities. In order to achieve that, we need a strong curriculum. For K-8 there actually is a simple fix. It's called Core Knowledge, it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, but it does require well-educated teachers. This might address the teacher quality issue as well, because poorly educated teachers don't want to teach world history, literature, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First and foremost are uniformly high quality educational opportunities. If that's there, then the others will follow.

But aren't those questions that should have been asked decades ago?

I absolutely agree that we should have high quality education opportunities. In order to achieve that, we need a strong curriculum. For K-8 there actually is a simple fix. It's called Core Knowledge, it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, but it does require well-educated teachers. This might address the teacher quality issue as well, because poorly educated teachers don't want to teach world history, literature, etc.

+1 and nor do they want to give students a strong foundation in STEM subjects which are direly needed for our nation's future and sustainability.