Another part of the assignment I had to do.
In the days before memes, there were catchphrases that were easy to remember and kept ideas and questions in the public discourse. I can remember the above question for almost as long as I have been alive. It was a call to arms about how public school systems were failing our children.
For more than 40 years the public education system had been under fire for a state of declining achievement. The arguments and solutions have been compelling, numerous and to relative degrees.. effective.
Study Finds Declining Student Achievement, Increased Harm to School Choice Since Common Core
I mean our society has not fallen into a state of illiteracy. Our businesses still run, new innovations are made, things get written. Our society is chugging along just fine.
Is the issue of "declining achievement is schools" a social problem? before you can answer that question there are so many that come before it. When was the high point of student achievement? who sets these benchmarks? Have they been consistent? If some one is going to make a claim about this being a social problem. That is the best place to start.
There a quite a few organizations that work to define academic school success. many of them are funded by the government.
I personally think that student achievement and an effective education is a social issue that needs to be addressed. I believe that a good education would help resolve so many other social issues. It could be that it's not getting the press it deserves, or our society has never thought of it as priority.
Let's find out why.
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