{"id":433598,"date":"2022-12-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=433598"},"modified":"2022-12-08T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:01:34","slug":"make-american-education-rigorous-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/make-american-education-rigorous-again","title":{"rendered":"Make American education rigorous again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that school choice is being touted not only by Republicans but also by Democrats, after public school students&#8217; test scores took a nosedive as a result of school districts&#8217; COVID-19 policies , it is a good moment to reintroduce rigor to American education writ large. I have been a college-level writing instructor at several universities, ranging from an elite ivy league institution to middling state schools, for more than a decade. Most of my students have been bright, hard-working and ambitious. But most of them could not reliably construct grammatical sentences. This inability to write at what was once considered a fifth-grade level is now the norm among students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, races and ethnicities. It is also the predictable result of the overemphasis on self-expression at the expense of excellence that has been driving the decline of American K-12 and higher education for decades. Educational &#8220;experts&#8221; who purport to know what is best for children have long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This inability to write at what was once considered a fifth-grade level is now the norm among students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, races and ethnicities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}