I think it helps going to the source material on this. Most of the administration’s moves have been pretty aligned with Project 2025, and it’s written in an accessible enough way:
Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated. When power is exercised, it should empower students and families, not government. In our pluralistic society, families and students should be free to choose from a diverse set of school options and learning environments that best fit their needs. Our postsecondary institutions should also reflect such diversity, with room for not only “traditional” liberal arts colleges and research universities but also faith-based institutions, career schools, military academies, and lifelong learning programs.
I don’t think it’s in the administration’s interest to make this seem like a prepared plan and part of an ultimately elitist philosophy, but if they actually explained it they would probably say that education should be subject to competition like other markets should be, with limited federal funding to states for excess expenditure, with the intention that education improves according to local (Christian) culture and parental involvement. The Department of Education currently tries to maintain federal standards for (more equitable) schooling, which is too general and prescriptive in this approach.
Probably not an ELI5 answer exactly, and I’m definitely not intending it as a supporting argument for this policy (it’s very elitist and inequitable), but just wanted to share that at least there is written material that outlines some of this.
The public education system in the US is garbage and has been since no child left behind and standardized testing was implemented. Rich people don’t send their kids to public schools because the education in the private and charter system is that much better where a large portion teach classical education and don’t feel pressured to teach to tests (that don’t tell you anything about someone’s knowledge). Rote knowledge/learning doesn’t work for the vast majority. Teaching critical thinking does.
I don’t know that putting the education of our children in the states hands (increasing state sovereignty) is the right call but I don’t know that it isn’t. What I do know is that doing it the knee-jerk reaction way that they are is outright idiotic and causing more harm quickly than it needs to.
Public schools are there to provide the bare minimum education for the lowest possible cost. They’re not there to create genius.
Which is a shame, because there are plenty of very talented kids in those schools who could be genius.
We need to revolutionize our approach to education if we want to stay competitive as a nation, and that doesn’t come from LESS funding or from having 50 different approaches.
Pushing it to the states would only make sense if the children of Alabama were tangibly different than the children of Texas. I would love to see someone explain how that’s the case.
I think it helps going to the source material on this. Most of the administration’s moves have been pretty aligned with Project 2025, and it’s written in an accessible enough way:
I don’t think it’s in the administration’s interest to make this seem like a prepared plan and part of an ultimately elitist philosophy, but if they actually explained it they would probably say that education should be subject to competition like other markets should be, with limited federal funding to states for excess expenditure, with the intention that education improves according to local (Christian) culture and parental involvement. The Department of Education currently tries to maintain federal standards for (more equitable) schooling, which is too general and prescriptive in this approach.
Probably not an ELI5 answer exactly, and I’m definitely not intending it as a supporting argument for this policy (it’s very elitist and inequitable), but just wanted to share that at least there is written material that outlines some of this.
Great response honestly.
The public education system in the US is garbage and has been since no child left behind and standardized testing was implemented. Rich people don’t send their kids to public schools because the education in the private and charter system is that much better where a large portion teach classical education and don’t feel pressured to teach to tests (that don’t tell you anything about someone’s knowledge). Rote knowledge/learning doesn’t work for the vast majority. Teaching critical thinking does.
I don’t know that putting the education of our children in the states hands (increasing state sovereignty) is the right call but I don’t know that it isn’t. What I do know is that doing it the knee-jerk reaction way that they are is outright idiotic and causing more harm quickly than it needs to.
Public schools are there to provide the bare minimum education for the lowest possible cost. They’re not there to create genius.
Which is a shame, because there are plenty of very talented kids in those schools who could be genius.
We need to revolutionize our approach to education if we want to stay competitive as a nation, and that doesn’t come from LESS funding or from having 50 different approaches.
Pushing it to the states would only make sense if the children of Alabama were tangibly different than the children of Texas. I would love to see someone explain how that’s the case.
They are now, that’s not how they started way back when. That’s the problem.