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Education made easy.(Education)

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| January 01, 2007 | Morgan, Patrick | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

DEFICIENCIES IN EDUCATION are becoming a public issue. The efforts of Kevin Donnelly and the Australian in exposing the fatuities of critical literacy and postmodernism are welcome signs. But the present problems are deep-set, as the rot set in some decades ago.

The guts of the education system have been ripped out by a series of demolition jobs--first inspectors were abolished, then grammar fell by the wayside, then state-wide external exams (which test teachers as much as students) were downplayed, then discrete disciplines lost their firm outlines as "transgressing the boundaries" became modish, then memorising was ridiculed as rote learning, then uniforms and ...

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