I mean from my standpoint, adminstrative and standardized driven teaching has failed us in America. Combine that with our elected officials on both sides of the aisle and throughout all levels of government who'd rather play power games than actually lead and I'm not surprised we are where we are.<p>Say what you want about the alternative power structures in other countries, they deserve all the criticism they get for some very real reasons, but sometimes being able to unilaterally force through changes seems really appealing.
Any non-paywall version available?<p>Would love to read this in full.<p>Without reading it though, my personal hunch as to why this is happening is a perfect storm of a generation of teachers conditioned by the idiotic NCLB act mixed with a generation of kids who were given their stressed-out parent's smart phone to play around with before they could even speak.<p>Plus, over that same time period, so many have left teaching as a profession because the conditions are simply awful - no support from ever-growing administration, criminally low pay, awful health care, terrible parents, distracted kids, and a teach-to-the-test mentality that has come full circle to become the enemy it sought to defeat.<p>That's to also say nothing of the fact that certain academic subjects are hyper-politicized for absolutely no reason, which in the age of social media keyboard warriors and divisive politics backed by big donors (whose interests absolutely do not run parallel with the country's best long-term interests) makes things even worse for teachers.<p>No wonder our educational system is failing.<p>We really need to rethink our educational policies as a society, and what we need to do to get to where we need to be.<p>HN, feel free to take a crack at what we need to do to get this country's education system back on track. If you folks can't solve it, I really doubt our representatives in various state houses and in DC can do so.