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• W12988172 abstract "America's educational system has been widely accused of failing the nation. The Public Television network evening news program of December 13, 1990, presented panel of experts (including John Silber, Ross Perot, and Thomas Kean) who concurred that the present educational system is worse than disaster. The Nation's Report Card for 1990 has been called a compendium of disappointment (Associated Press Editorial, 1990). The specific negative findings were: 1. Students do not read analytically. 2. Few students write well enough to communicate effectively. 3. Half of the high school students cannot handle challenging material in math. 4. Students have an uneven understanding of the U.S. Constitution. Clearly, at minimum, America's schools have an image problem. At most they are failing the nation and need total renovation. The true situation is somewhere between those extremes, but extensive repairs are indicated. The problems of our educational system require practical solutions and it behooves the nation to search for cures for its educational maladies. Certainly, one of the first steps in this procedure is to identify the difficulty to be corrected. A Proposed Diagnosis A plethora of alterations have been made in the nation's educational enterprise during the past two decades. The overwhelming majority of these changes has been directed toward connecting specific areas such as teacher certification and graduation requirements. In spite of these efforts, the main problems remain. It appears that, as yet, an accurate diagnosis has not been made. At least, one has not served as the base for satisfactory corrective effort. Thus, there is need to continue work to specify comprehensive causal agent and, since the efforts targeted on limited areas have not worked effectively, it may be profitable to explore larger, more general factors. In fight of available data, it is reasonable to postulate that educational progress is being impeded by process caused personally rational decision-making which Luthans (1985) defined as decision directed toward an individual's goal (p. 593). This mode of selecting objectives is contrasted to organizationally rational decisions which are aimed at organizational goals. Personally rational decision is directed toward self-selected goals. The final stage of the process is private and self-monitored being devoid of collaborative input. Even though the final decisions may range from selfish to altruistic, all are formulated idiosyncratically. It is appropriate to present evidence to support the rather bold contention that certain aspects of educational programs are plagued with personally rational decision-making; but, caveat should be added. It may be impossible to explicate even small portion of all the data which could support the notion that education is laden with personally rational decisions. Indeed, it would require an impossible amount of psychotherapy to identify the private decisions of all the people involved in the educational process. There is, however, enough readily accessible data to justify conjecture that the use of privatized goals is extensive. Inferential Evidence American schools exist within culture that is beset by personally rational decision-making. Indeed, many writers have called the present society the me generation (Lasch, 1979). This label connotes popular lifestyle in which personal concerns supersede social considerations. Since privatized decision-making is prevalent in the broader society, it is reasonable to assume that it exists to about the same degree inside education institutions. A second source of inferential evidence is the popularity of personally rational decision-making in positions of power which according to Shakespeare magnify human traits. Watergate, Irangate, S&L and White Water investigations revealed clearly the prevailing pursuit of individual preferences over group concerns at the highest levels of our society. …" @default.
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• W12988172 title "School Failures Caused by Personal Goals of Teachers and Administrators That Dwarf Social Ones" @default.
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