{"id":2749,"date":"2020-08-24T23:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:19:37","slug":"republican-goals-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/08\/24\/republican-goals-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican goals for education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is no new Republican platform this year. The 2016 platform is carried over. A set of goals broken down by area was released [https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/media\/trump-campaign-announces-president-trumps-2nd-term-agenda-fighting-for-you<\/a>]. Here are the two goals for education (I assume K12). Not making this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I understand the initial goal given familiarity with the DeVos agenda<\/a>. School choice is a very controversial topic assumed by many to increase the inequity in the experiences students receive. I am not exactly certain what American Exceptionalism means. I tried to locate an official definition<\/a>, but on its face I find promoting that you are exceptional is offensive and encourages division rather than cooperation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the challenges faced by educators coming up with these two goals shows the authors to be out of touch with the profession and the challenges as they exist and I would guess to be offensive to many educators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For contrast, here is the link to the Democratic platform. It is lengthy and online as a pdf. This link should take you to the section addressing education – https:\/\/www.demconvention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-07-31-Democratic-Party-Platform-For-Distribution.pdf#page65<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no new Republican platform this year. The 2016 platform is carried over. A set of goals broken down by area was released [https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/media\/trump-campaign-announces-president-trumps-2nd-term-agenda-fighting-for-you]. Here are the two goals for education (I assume K12). Not making this up. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2752,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}