US K-12 Education Failures

The cluster focuses on critiques of the American public K-12 education system, debating its broken state, failed policies, reforms, political influences, and lack of accountability.

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Sample Comments

ubernostrum Dec 7, 2016 View on HN

Education policy is a political topic. Get it off HN.

ubernostrum Dec 7, 2016 View on HN

Education policy is a political topic, get it off HN.

palish Aug 18, 2007 View on HN

Assertion: The American K-12 school system is broken in huge ways. Let's talk about it!

WalterBright Jun 24, 2021 View on HN

If what you're saying is true, then why did the school system say this would fix education?

hackaflocka Mar 18, 2016 View on HN

The blogger is writing about what's happening in maybe 4 (top) schools. The rest of the country doesn't have this "problem."Why the downvotes?

rootusrootus Jan 6, 2021 View on HN

Now tell me which side destroyed education.

kortilla Aug 7, 2023 View on HN

The comment was actually a critique of the US education system :)

philipov Sep 8, 2023 View on HN

It's an unfortunate reality that many schools in the US are under the governance of people pushing the exact screeds the schools should be teaching kids to criticize. Is it any wonder we have an education crisis in this country?

will1am Jul 17, 2024 View on HN

You touches on a critical aspect of educational reform

staunton Apr 18, 2023 View on HN

It's not that many schools and they stopped the policy again...To my mind, the outrage is somewhat exaggerated. You could call it "outrage fetishism about culture war issues". Also an opportunity for "smart people" to feel good about "how they managed to learn things despite having to go to school" and how much better they think they could organize the school system, or how much smarter they would have been if no schools had existed.Yes, maybe the stated