Practical Reform

When, a few weeks ago, hierarchs of the California Teachers Association and other evangels of Deweyism muttered angrily about the reforming Senate Bill 57, the state senator who was the author of this reforming piece of legislation declared publicly that his act is only the beginning: the restoration of learning is going a great deal further in California. One reason the senator in question pushed through his bill—which requires all teachers to have at least a minor in some “subject-matter” field, and stipulates that even superintendents and principals must be nominal masters of some intellectual discipline—was that his son in public school, he found, was being taught history by an athletic coach—and taught wretchedly.

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When, a few weeks ago, hierarchs of the California Teachers Association and other evangels of Deweyism muttered angrily about the reforming Senate Bill 57, the state senator who was the author of this reforming piece of legislation declared publicly that his act is only the beginning: the restoration of learning is going a great deal further in California. One reason the senator in question pushed through his bill—which requires all teachers to have at least a minor in some “subject-matter” field, and stipulates that even superintendents and principals must be nominal masters of some intellectual discipline—was that his son in public school, he found, was being taught history by an athletic coach—and taught wretchedly.

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