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Saving Education
2032 Will Be Okay if We Do This
This is either an epic disaster or an epic opportunity.
April, 2020. Most public and private elementary and secondary schools across America are announcing their closure for the rest of the academic year. Parents are wringing their hands over the loss of recoverable instruction and worrying because their kids lost what amounts to almost an entire semester of learning. Some schools were ramping up for standardized testing, usually held in the spring, and now their universal measures of progress are gone.
So now, America, we have a broad slate wiped clean. This is either an epic disaster or an epic opportunity. For decades, we’ve lamented the state of education, crying that it needs a massive overhaul. Magazine covers decried, “Johnny Can’t Read” parents fretted over “The New Math” and charter schools have flourished in the public-private school debate.
American Education: now is our time.
Betsy DeVos is sheltering in place on one of her two or three dozen yachts, so all it will take is for one very innovative and brave public school district with a daring — and this is important — not corrupt (hard to find, but not impossible) team to pull this off.
Pull the rug out from under our current educational model.
