Do not take apart the Department of Education right now
Donald Trump appears poised to make great on his project promise to take apart the Department of Education. The president-elect's aggravation with the stubborn instructions of federal education is reasonable-- and shared by countless Americans. Shuttering the Department of Education will not alter that instructions. Let's make a guarantee to America's kids.
The brand-new administration should develop a "Kids First" education strategy that empowers trainees, moms and dads, and instructors-- instead of administrators and bureaucrats-- and focuses on real-world scholastic accomplishment over the stopped working pedagogies of the past.
When Jimmy Carter developed the Education Department in 1979, U.S. schoolchildren were ranked initially worldwide for scholastic efficiency. Ever since, we've b...