American Educators Have Given Up on Real Teaching

   HERE’S A LITTLE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: Suppose that beginning slowly back in the 1970s (as described at encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/culture-magazines/1970s-education-overview) many in the bureaucratic American education establishment — teachers and administrators — discovered that it’s hard to teach actual academic material such as reading skills, math, sciences, the arts, history, civics, logic, and so forth to kids immersed in a popular culture in which academic accomplishment is increasingly disrespected, and even scorned. 

   Similarly (these folks discovered), it’s hard to teach kids from increasingly-common single-parent households — or intact-family households in which both parents work full-time (thanks to ignorance about the income tax — the truth of which can be learned beginning at: losthorizons.com/BobsBicycles.pdf) — where they are increasingly less likely to be read to, thoughtfully reasoned with, or shown by example the practices and profits of disciplined academic work.

   Suppose these education bureaucrats likewise figured out that it’s difficult to get students to cooperate in producing satisfactory gender and racial representation (such as in S.T.E.M. disciplines or class rankings) per ...