Entries by Joe Miller

Common Core and School Choice

Our current public education system is a cognitive dissonance writ large. In it we try to prepare our most precious youth for the rigors of global free market competition in an institution that actively suppresses it. How can a noncompetitive socialist education model- where everyone gets a trophy- possibly prepare our students for the real world of intense market competition? It can’t.

Educator, Heal Thyself

At a relatively early age, public school students are pegged as advanced learners — while teachers balk at being judged on their pedagogical skills — and promoted into a more intense educational environment, while other students languish on the public school bus of mediocrity.