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Defunding the Teacher Trainers

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Posted By: Judy W., 2/27/2025 6:33:27 AM

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education eliminated two major teacher-training programs: the $70 million-a-year Teacher Quality Partnerships program as well as the $80 million-a-year Supporting Effective Educator Development grants. This is terrific news, not just for the budgetary savings but because it strikes an emphatic blow at training that has promoted dubious dogmas and politicized classrooms. (Snip) The Department of Education noted that many of the teacher preparation and training programs featured social-justice activism, a hyper-fixation on race, and recruiting strategies “implicitly and explicitly based on race.” Grant proposals included programs that instruct teachers to address “systemic forms of oppression and inequity” and pressure trainees

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This is a great start to making the schools about education, not indoctrination.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 2/27/2025 7:30:27 AM (No. 1904675)
They had it right back in the 1960s, why did they have to change? After elementary school, students were divided into ten sections based on IQ and ability to learn. The clowns attended the easy classes and became burger-flippers, the upper section kids received STEM classes and usually went on to college. Then they introduced "feelings" into the mix. Now, nobody is challenged and colleges have found it necessary to dumb-down classes and create imaginary degrees for which they charge ten times the appropriate price for tuition.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: anniebc 2/27/2025 8:18:12 AM (No. 1904701)
When I was in grad school, I taught Freshman Comp to a class of students who graduated top of their class in high school. Roughly two of around 30 or so students could write. All we did the entire semester was work on portfolios of their lives; they had to do rewrites of around five pieces. They were required to make a certain number of visits to the writing center (where I also worked) to get support. Most passed with Cs, but a significant number couldn't make it past a D grade. Very sad. It was so bad the university stopped requiring testing to determine placement for freshmen and started allowing students to pick whatever classes they wanted. A large percentage of students (and teachers) in college shouldn't be there.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: ladydawgfan 2/27/2025 8:53:15 AM (No. 1904725)
RE #2: I experienced somewhat the same when I was in college in the late 90's. In Early American History, the instructor set an essay question at the end of an exam. I was the only one in a class of a out 30 that knew and used the proper structure of an essay. She asked for my permission to copy my essay, minus my identifying info, to distribute to the class to show how the question should have been answered. I was stunned that there were students that far into college that couldn't even write a proper essay. In another class, another essay was set as the assignment. One of my classmates asked me to look over his "essay." It was one long run-on sentence full of spelling errors, no punctuation and no separate paragraphs. I had to show him the proper structure of an essay so that he could rewrite it to make sense. Ridiculous and inexcusable incompetence to let kids graduate high school with so little basic knowledge!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: FormerDem 2/27/2025 9:14:42 AM (No. 1904738)
well I have a docdtorate in physics and astronomy and I tried to get a job teaching science in the worst public schools of Washington DC but they turned me down flat. I was sure I could make those kids shine. Still am sure I could have.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 2/27/2025 9:34:18 AM (No. 1904749)
If that's not your natural hair color, take a hike. And lose some weight!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Highlander 2/27/2025 10:55:31 AM (No. 1904802)
I'm sure glad I got all my training, in California yet, done in '02 before all this garbage got started. I'm old school, yea. I'm a Trump conservative in spite of the fact I'm a retired teacher working as a sub. No CRT and DEI for me!
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