What caused the decline of American education?

1. A 19th century model for training factory workers, that has only been tinkered with, not updated. 2. Treating teachers as employees, not as management. As a result, they unionized and lost incentive to innovate. 3. read more

Education pundits continue to deliberate and pontificate on the reasons for America's decline in education and to offer the same, effete educational nostrums. As usual, they claim that we do not spend enough on public education and "invest" sufficiently in the future generation. read more

Dr. Roche is Director of Seminars for the Foundation for Economic Education. He has taught history and philosophy in college and maintains a special interest in American edu­cation. The lowered ethical standards of our age have been matched by a decline of intellect. read more