New World Education

Remember all the griping about No Child Left Behind? In a nutshell, the concept was that advancement in schools should depend upon ability to meet a standard for grade-level work. The federal government asked states to prepare a list of what those standards should be then conduct an evaluation to insure that students achieved the standards. It was the state's responsibility to set approved standards, design an approved evaluation method and submit evidence of standard achievement rates.

Low performing institutions were monitored to insure progress toward acceptable performance. Penalties could be invoked after a reasonable period of failure to improve.

That sort of a program is simply too realistic for the Brave New World. It damages the self-esteem of the lazy and worthless. It stresses productive academic achievement at the expense of feel-good courses about the environment and the evil racist history of Amerika. You don't get to reward "the arts" and the study of counter-cultural extremist positions until you can add/subtract, read/write, and recall the major lessons of history. Clearly that is not what we want in this country.

Therefore we must stop "teaching to the test" and convert to passing students through school and out into the non-productive segments of society so that they can Occupy Wall Street or whatever town they can find their way to city center in.

Here's a novel approach in New York City:

Failed? NO! Lower the Standards and Raise the Grades!

And when you implement a program like that what happens? Why you get a big stipend from the Federal Department of Education, of course.