The Choice Channel

“At the most fundamental level, American education is suffering from an advanced state of what social scientists call “institutionalization. Societies adopt problem-solving strategies, then cling to those strategies rather than devise new ones as social change alters the nature of the problem. In American education, one manifestation of this phenomenon is the failure to rethink the Adequacy and appropriateness of the ‘core’ curriculum recommended by the Committee of Ten in 1892. Mathematics, science, language arts, social studies and other school subjects have taken on lives of their own only marginally related to societal survival and citizen well-being.” (07/29/07)