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• W85429335 abstract "A new report from Public Agenda, Assignment Incomplete, got stuck in my mind this month like a melody that wouldn't go away.(1) Everything in my pile of reading seemed to relate back to this latest Public Agenda study. From American Federation of Teachers President Al Shanker's review of the report, in which he said that is running out on public education, to a host of school board campaign tirades in Littleton, Colorado, to some interesting data on family income - everything seemed bent on concluding that the American public has put squarely in the cross hairs of a debate that no reform guru or politician can talk his or her way out of - at least not before the next election. While section two of Assignment Incomplete, titled Why Americans Are Obsessed With the Basics, seems as clear and hard-hitting as anything one could read, it still leaves me with a question. Why, after 10 years of reform and increased enrollment in the basic academic subjects, does the public still perceive the schools to be neglecting the teaching of the basics? Maybe it's the confusion generated by the need to teach academic skills - and the strong public support for doing so - when the public also says that it wants the schools to spend time on values. Or perhaps it's the cacophony of critics arguing over only versus that prevents educators from delivering what the American public wants from public education. But piecing together the correct plan of attack from the many competing messages arriving at the schoolhouse door may be difficult than even the authors of Assignment Incomplete understand. If the public wants high standards and is willing to buy the idea of expect more, get more but simultaneously holds in contempt those who are too highly educated or who know something but can't apply that knowledge in the real world, then teachers may have a right to be confused. Maybe what is needed are hundreds of discussions of Assignment Incomplete, with everyone in and the public at large seeking to reinterpret the American dream of universal public education. School Board Elections The Littleton, Colorado, debate that pitted the back-to-basics approach against outcomes-based started with the school board elections two years ago and is back in the news. In 1993 voters elected a board that gave the basics candidates a 3-to-2 edge. But one of these candidates moved to a new job out of the district this past year, leaving the board with three open seats in the November election this year. An editorial writer for the Denver Post described the political scene in Littleton as just shy of municipal civil war over a back-to-basics agenda. While level-headed educators have tried to accommodate the new board in its quest for traditional education, one of the candidates in this year's election opposed the introduction of the International Baccalaureate program in one of the high schools, saying he would rather spend the money on sports. The mood leading up to the 1995 election was one in which the candidates were upset with the original basics board for not moving fast or far enough. However, newspaper editorials that would ordinarily support traditional education expressed the belief that some of the candidates were too rigid and too willing to impose their own points of view on citizens who wanted a moderate approach. Meanwhile, Colorado was using mail-in ballots for the first time in a school board election. And many bond or mill levy votes were also on these ballots, which makes this an important election to follow. Basics for the Middle Class Back in my reading pile, Who Killed the Middle Class? - an article by John Cassidy in the October 16 issue of the New Yorker - looked like a safe bet for bedtime reading. But it too pulled me back to the Public Agenda report. Cassidy built the case that average household income in constant dollars increased at about the same rate for both poor and rich between the years 1947 and 1973, but that, from 1973 to 1993, overall household income had declined slightly. …" @default.
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