Opinion by George F. Will: In 1983, a blue-ribbon education commission decried a “rising tide of mediocrity” in U.S. K-12 education. Two generations on, mediocrity might be an aspiration.
, say “public education has drifted toward an oppositional relationship with its founding purpose of forming citizens, facilitating social cohesion, and transmitting our culture from one generation to the next.” The result is the emergence of what might be a dominant political issue in 2024: parental rights concerning educational content and curriculum transparency.
Remote learning during the pandemic, say Pondiscio and Schirra, “pried open the black box of America’s classrooms.” Progressives, anxious to slam it shut again, portray any public involvement in public education, other than paying for it, as an infringement of the hitherto unenunciated right of teachers to unabridged sovereignty over other peoples’ children. But as UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh has said, “got to decide what is going to be taught in K-12 schools.
That state’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, is following the example of the federal government, which currently is operating under 41
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