The age of educational romanticism by Charles Murray - The New Criterion - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Jul 08
  

  Alexander Garber

  Austhink

• 19 Jun 08
  

  Mario A Núñez
  • Educational romanticism consists of the belief that just about all children who are not doing well in school have the potential to do much better
  • Correlatively, educational romantics believe that the academic achievement of children is determined mainly by the opportunities they receive; that innate intellectual limits (if they exist at all) play a minor role; and that the current K-12 schools have huge room for improvement.
• 08 May 08
  

  Missy Parker

  education politics

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  oswego12

  Evaluation of US K-12 education system.

  critique of schools

• 06 May 08
  

  b_pete

  toread

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  Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

  On requiring every child to be above average.

  to_read

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  nate stearns

  education research NCLB

  • and George W. Bush is the Percy Bysshe Shelley of educational romantics—knew that
  • No Child Left Behind’s dogmatic aspirations and fractured design are producing a compliance-driven regimen that recreates the very pathologies it was intended to solve. It is time to relearn the lessons of the Great Society, when ambitious programs designed to promote justice and opportunity were undone by utopian formulations, unworkable implementation structures, and the stubborn unwillingness of supporters to acknowledge the limitations of federal action in the American system.
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  beth gourley

  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newcriterion.com%2Farticles.cfm%2FThe-age-of-educational-romanticism-3835

  • Educational romanticism consists of the belief that just about all children who are not doing well in school have the potential to do much better
  • academic achievement of children is determined mainly by the opportunities they receive
  • nnate intellectual limits (if they exist at all) play a minor role;
  • romantics of the Left focus on race, class, and gender.
  • Right see public education as an ineffectual monopoly,
  • enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

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  Gardner Campbell

  "For now, it is enough to recognize that educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top. It short-changes all of them."

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Page Comments

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  nate stearns on 2008-05-06
  Murray has more than a few problems as a source but many of his criticisms hit home. Is education so pitiful in it's effect on people? Is that really what the research says because I didn't note much that he cited.

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