This is part of a broader pattern of declining satisfaction with many of our nation’s institutions, but schools, banks, television news, and organized religion have taken a particularly hard hit with record-low ratings.
I tend to write about the negative aspects of our educational system in my blog, and this survey confirms that I’m not alone in my perspective. We see increasing amounts of money spent on education with increasingly disappointing results. While these poor results partly reflect our society as a whole, I remain convinced that public schools could make changes that would result in improved achievement levels. Cost of College recently added a new category, lower education bubble, that includes posts about problems I see with K-12 education.
We still value education, but we have more options beyond traditional public schools
Speaking of options
Ten years ago this month the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Cleveland’s school choice program in what some consider the most important education decision since Brown v. Board of Education.
