This is an excellent article which made me think about the changes in education that I have seen over the past 28 years.
Standardized testing, for instance:
"As an employer, I see the fallout every day. We have a generation of high school graduates who’ve been taught to worship some standardized test score but can’t think their way out of a corner. But we can’t pin that on teachers. They’re the ones left holding the empty bag dumped on them by short-sighted legislators." Laura Lofton Lemasters
A
friend and I were grousing about ignorance run amok. “Americans get
their information from internet memes,” I laughed. “And in the true
spirit of democracy, dullards who have never cracked a
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