If you are feeling down about the American Educational system. Read this about the Swedish systemhttps://quillette.com/2018/09/18/post-truth-and-the-decline-of-swedish-education/ …
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Progressive educational ideas are terrible for education. America has been saddled with them since John Dewey
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"The abandonment of teacher-led instruction was strongly supported by the governing Social Democrats, who described the practice as “authoritarian to its core.” Instead, methods that would promote students’ independence and general critical thinking abilities were recommended."
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"The second curriculum (enacted in 1969) then called for a breakup of the structure of the traditional subject disciplines and discouraged all types of knowledge measurement."
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"However, the teaching methods used in schools changed very little between the 1960s and 1980s ... It was not until the early 1990s when the oldest teachers retired that this traditional culture was displaced by the new learning paradigm."
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interestingly, market-based voucher schools made the problem of grade inflation worse
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I am not at all proud to say I immediately wonder how student demographics have changed since the 60s.
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