Perhaps you are an eternal optimist, hoping the Education Establishment will reform itself.  I have bad news: the top people in education like what they're doing just fine. John Dewey and his successors were/are socialists first, educators second.  Everything you see in K-12 education is not an aberration, but a fulfillment of Dewey's "progressive" dream first formulated a century ago. John Dewey wrote thousands of pages explaining his ideological vision.  But if you want a single comment that captures all the counterintuitive goofiness in a few words, listen to G. Stanley Hall.  He was Dewey's mentor and himself one of the early titans of American education.  Professor Hall said: "Reading should no longer be a fetish.  Little attention should be paid to reading." It's a straight line from that inanity to the latest stats indicating that less than one third of fourth-graders and...(Read Full Article)