Finally. PoliticsNC! The merit raises at university levels stopped during time interval you cite. Despite publishing and all else entailed post tenure. Even cost-of-living plateaued. And I can surely speak to K-12 breakdowns as I kept a foot there in English education courses in an English Dept. I will not go into detail. I can attest with firsthand experience and knowledge we were making slow, steady progress during the 1990s up until about 2010 as noted. Although I witnessed the "breaking in the making" before 2010. And PoliticsNC rings true by saying some educational reformists "don't believe in public education at all." Hence a lot of machinations and bureaucratic hoops and hoop-la masquerading as if belief in public education was the "truth" of goings-on. And yes! Linkage between schools and our nation is working to make certain public schooling continues to die. As lies press on with surgical precision and incredulity about how learning happens has been left a long time ago; wayside. Blatant. In the face. Hence in NC a Robinson and a Morrow--ugly affair. A graduate school peer Nancie Atwell from Boothbay Harbor, Maine--an American educator who became the first recipient Of the Global Teacher Prize in 2015, says today she can only encourage those who desire to teach to enter the private sector. This is someone who starts her own school to educate middle schoolers in Boothbay Harbor to become a place for educators to come and learn also. Her school continues today, now run by her daughter. Thanks to the Global Teacher Prize monies. Let me just put this down. IT IS not happenstance--far from it--that education has "not" been a priority--even if we had a glorious resurgence beginning with the Dartmouth Conference in 1965 that power steamed during the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s. Freedom? "Just another word for nothing left to lose...."
Finally. PoliticsNC! The merit raises at university levels stopped during time interval you cite. Despite publishing and all else entailed post tenure. Even cost-of-living plateaued. And I can surely speak to K-12 breakdowns as I kept a foot there in English education courses in an English Dept. I will not go into detail. I can attest with firsthand experience and knowledge we were making slow, steady progress during the 1990s up until about 2010 as noted. Although I witnessed the "breaking in the making" before 2010. And PoliticsNC rings true by saying some educational reformists "don't believe in public education at all." Hence a lot of machinations and bureaucratic hoops and hoop-la masquerading as if belief in public education was the "truth" of goings-on. And yes! Linkage between schools and our nation is working to make certain public schooling continues to die. As lies press on with surgical precision and incredulity about how learning happens has been left a long time ago; wayside. Blatant. In the face. Hence in NC a Robinson and a Morrow--ugly affair. A graduate school peer Nancie Atwell from Boothbay Harbor, Maine--an American educator who became the first recipient Of the Global Teacher Prize in 2015, says today she can only encourage those who desire to teach to enter the private sector. This is someone who starts her own school to educate middle schoolers in Boothbay Harbor to become a place for educators to come and learn also. Her school continues today, now run by her daughter. Thanks to the Global Teacher Prize monies. Let me just put this down. IT IS not happenstance--far from it--that education has "not" been a priority--even if we had a glorious resurgence beginning with the Dartmouth Conference in 1965 that power steamed during the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s. Freedom? "Just another word for nothing left to lose...."