Public Service Announcement

As the dominant element in our property tax system, schools and their funding sources must be reformed away from property taxes, buildings and systems. An excellent analysis of the issues and recommended path forward was published in thehill.com.

Consequently, about once per century — so just twice in American history — there is a movement to refashion the very notion of education in America. The first of these, in the early 1800s, culminated in what we now recognize as our public education system. To this day, Americans should be proud of a system that, in spite of a deeply heterogeneous population, both taught the basics and fostered a unifying vision of the common good. 

Unfortunately, the opposite has been true for too long. The second of these “education revolutions,” motivated by the work of John Dewey and William James, has laid the foundation for the current system – a system in which truth is relative, and in which education’s purpose, therefore, is not to cultivate an understanding of the “permanent things,” but to make each student the best, most predictable, well-trained cog in a machine.

Read the entire article!