Steven Crowder Quotes
In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to our professors, not less?
Crowder, Steven. Opinion column. Fox News, 2010.
To many Republicans and conservatives this view was heresy, especially coming from a leader of the Party that wanted to abolish the Federal Department of Education and leave education to the states and local communities. The culture of which he complains, others, left and right, considered virtuous and good educational policy. In actuality there have been educational standards for years for most schools and states like New York have had states wide exams. Paige and others wanted Federal Standards which were implemented and the nation had to contend with States and School districts who cheated to avoid the harsh penalties. Meanwhile American citizens are less satisfied with public schools than ever despite the fact that America has some of the best schools in the world.
Actually, this is a classic case of what the scientists call “co-morbidity”. There are a number of factors that determine whether or not children will do well in school, and each of them are factors. Certainly the teacher is one critical factor, that resonates with most of us as we can remember the inspirational and better teachers that we ourselves experienced. However, there are many people who receive good educations without particularly inspirational teachers. Some who have sufficient motivation are even self taught. Parental influence is a major factor but there have been many exceptional educations obtained by children who were orphans or who came from dysfunctional families with uneducated, ignorant parents who saw little or no value in education. Any improvements we can make in any of these factors will produce better educational outcomes.
The Governor had just ordered the withdrawal of the State from the “Common Core” national educational standards and testing program. Louisiana has always had a relatively poor education system and the test scores of Louisiana Students were very poor compared with students from other states. However, this was embarrassing, and instead of trying to improve the education in the State, the Governor wanted the State to have their own tests so they could lower the standards and appear to have better results in percentage of students passing. The State Superintendent of Education, however, claimed the Governor did not have the authority to withdraw from the common core, and a political and legal battle began.
Steven Blake Crowder is an American-Canadian conservative political commentator, media host and comedian. He hosts Louder with Crowder, a daily political podcast. He is particularly notable for a recurring segment called "Change My Mind". He is also a former contributor at Fox News.
