{"id":12648,"date":"2013-07-31T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=12648"},"modified":"2013-07-31T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:27:51","slug":"why-education-ills-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2013\/07\/31\/why-education-ills-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Education Ills Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by D. Niwa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Decade after decade, many of the same old theories\/philosophies, teaching methods, and questionable goals\/&#8221;outcomes&#8221;\/standards are peddled in public education. <\/p>\n<p>Often present is the use of behavioral psychology and\/or a focus on breaking down values and institutional structures. All these may also be found in taxpayer-funded charter schools and potentially in private schools and home schools if the latter two categories adopt the same concepts\/methods. This is one reason why &#8220;school choice&#8221; reforms [1] are such a bad joke on the public. <\/p>\n<p>See this PDF file <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Education-Theories.pdf\">Education Theories<\/a> that contains a chart for &#8220;Theories of Education&#8221; (1 page) and for &#8220;Learning Theories and Philosophies as Applied to Schooling&#8221; (1 page).<\/p>\n<p>[1] &#8220;School choice&#8221; reforms may involve vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, and &#8220;special programs&#8221; promoting a variety of themes (e.g., International Baccalaureate Programs, ethnic\/multicultural\/culture studies, arts &#8220;programs,&#8221; education for &#8220;sustainable development&#8221; (supporting U.N. Agenda 21), career technical education (including career pathways\/training) &#8212; workforce training to support a centrally planned global economy, and more) etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by D. Niwa Decade after decade, many of the same old theories\/philosophies, teaching methods, and questionable goals\/&#8221;outcomes&#8221;\/standards are peddled in public education. Often present is the use of behavioral psychology and\/or a focus on breaking down values and institutional structures. All these may also be found in taxpayer-funded charter schools and potentially in private schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12651,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}