Education Policy Fails

No Child Left Behind and Common Core curriculum are prime examples of top down education policies.  Be assured, these are NOT student centered.  In fact, many so-called student centered lessons are top down actions in “sheep’s clothing”.  Like so many other things in modern life, jingoisms and buzz words are catchy tags for the latest fads.  And like many TV ads, these phrases often fail to deliver.  On the surface, the students suffer.  No Child Left Behind also meant No Child Gets Ahead.  Everyone needed to be in lock step.  Common Core has revealed itself as many students got to experience the Common Bore up front and personal.  In the long run, the nation suffers.  You have to wonder who benefits by killing the curiosity of children who grow up to be adults lacking critical thinking skills.  Reflection and introspection seem to be lacking in most top down policies.  Perhaps policy makers curiosity died at an early age.  As adults, they can only create unimaginative education policies that fail to serve the students.  What we can’t quite figure out is where they got the creative spark to make policies that seem to line their pockets at the expense of the students, future generations and the nation?