'PROHIBITED TOPICS - LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES could also be titled, HOW THE AUTOCRATS DESTROY DEMOCRACY & EDUCATION for THEIR OWN PERSONAL POWER.
This piece by TC documents how the autocrats are taking a torch to education in America. Thank you TC.
'The Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, joined Democrats in calling for more transparency over the textbook decisions.'
“The state has an obligation to ensure that every child is getting the math instruction they need with the highest quality materials,” FEA president Andrew Spar said in a statement.
'DeSantis said he would be open to the state making public examples of the textbooks, but maintained that the content is considered “proprietary information” as publishers weigh possible appeals to the rejections.' (Politico) See link below
‘… schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide potential base of support but offers weak incentives to its defenders.
'Dictatorship provides stronger incentives to a narrower base. As education raises the benefits of civic engagement, it raises participation in support of a broad-based regime (democracy) relative to that in support of a narrow-based regime (dictatorship). This increases the likelihood of successful democratic revolutions against dictatorships and reduces that of successful anti-democratic coups.'
Back in the day, as a teacher I served on a textbook review committee. We specifically asked the school board not to select a certain textbook for classroom management reasons. The concepts were fine, but required more than one adult in the classroom to successfully accomplish the lessons. I had no teaching assistant, and the school board was not going to hire any either. How was I going to successfully teach math lessons using such material? The board chose that textbook, don’t you know! In 3 years, they selected different math textbooks. All kinds of stupid mandates are sent into the classroom that put teachers and students in no win situations. The CRT and SEL battles are the latest examples, which show that the crazies are the loudest people in the situation and they are dangerous.
'PROHIBITED TOPICS - LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES could also be titled, HOW THE AUTOCRATS DESTROY DEMOCRACY & EDUCATION for THEIR OWN PERSONAL POWER.
This piece by TC documents how the autocrats are taking a torch to education in America. Thank you TC.
'The Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, joined Democrats in calling for more transparency over the textbook decisions.'
“The state has an obligation to ensure that every child is getting the math instruction they need with the highest quality materials,” FEA president Andrew Spar said in a statement.
'DeSantis said he would be open to the state making public examples of the textbooks, but maintained that the content is considered “proprietary information” as publishers weigh possible appeals to the rejections.' (Politico) See link below
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/florida-critical-race-theory-math-textbooks-00025918
‘… schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide potential base of support but offers weak incentives to its defenders.
'Dictatorship provides stronger incentives to a narrower base. As education raises the benefits of civic engagement, it raises participation in support of a broad-based regime (democracy) relative to that in support of a narrow-based regime (dictatorship). This increases the likelihood of successful democratic revolutions against dictatorships and reduces that of successful anti-democratic coups.'
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/democracy_final_jeg_1.pdf
Back in the day, as a teacher I served on a textbook review committee. We specifically asked the school board not to select a certain textbook for classroom management reasons. The concepts were fine, but required more than one adult in the classroom to successfully accomplish the lessons. I had no teaching assistant, and the school board was not going to hire any either. How was I going to successfully teach math lessons using such material? The board chose that textbook, don’t you know! In 3 years, they selected different math textbooks. All kinds of stupid mandates are sent into the classroom that put teachers and students in no win situations. The CRT and SEL battles are the latest examples, which show that the crazies are the loudest people in the situation and they are dangerous.