Real Education
Four Simple Truths
for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality
by Charles Murray
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Twenty-four years ago,
Charles
Murray’s "Losing Ground"
changed the way the nation thought about welfare.
Now he's about to do
the same thing for America’s schools.
In
"Real Education," Murray explains how
politicians and educators are living a lie, refusing to
talk about the ways that students’ differing academic
abilities should shape our schools
and asks educators, parents, and students to address
four simple truths...
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Ability Varies –
Ability varies widely on many skills, from shooting
baskets to salesmanship to solving quadratic equations.
School should do what it can to nurture all of these
abilities, but by failing to tailor education to the way
core academic abilities vary, schools are shortchanging
all children. |
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Half of the Children Are Below Average
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Many children cannot learn more than rudimentary reading
and math. Real Education reviews what we know about the
limits of what schools can do and the results of four
decades of policies that require schools to divert huge
resources to unattainable goals.
• Too
Many People Are Going to College
– Almost everyone should get training beyond high
school, but the number of students who want, need, or
can profit from four years of residential education at
the college level is a fraction of the number of young
people who are struggling to get a degree.
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America’s Future Depends on How We Educate the
Academically Gifted
– Since everything we watch, hear, and read is produced
by an elite, and since every business and government
department is run by that elite, it is time to start
thinking about the kind of education needed by the young
people who will run the country. We must make sure that
the education system does the best possible job of
educating the gifted—which doesn’t mean pampering the
little darlings, but holding their feet to the fire.
In
Real Education, Murray suggests specific ways in which
these goals can be achieved—not through top-down
government dictates but by allowing parents, teachers,
and employers to make the kinds of changes they already
want to make.
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