An Idea for Real Reform for Secretary DeVos

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National Review:

 

An Idea for Real Reform for Secretary DeVos

by PETER AUGUSTINE LAWLER February 12, 2017 4:46 AM

 

So why didn’t I weigh in on the controversy over the nomination of Betsy DeVos? The truth is I could see that both sides were overheated and misleading, yet both were making some good points. I prudently decided not to take a stand that would arouse everyone’s animosity against me. Now that we have Secretary DeVos, it’s time to offer her advice. My first idea is that she should read my American Heresies and Higher Education. Here’s one point I make there:

 

We in higher education are seeing the despotic impositions of educational bureaucrats floating up in our direction through the efforts of our administrative class to impose a “culture of assessment” through the increasingly intrusive and pointlessly homogenizing standards for accreditation. Much of what’s required for accreditation now is a huge waste of time and treasure in the eyes of faculty, and they comply with ironic resignation to degrading requests. The culture of assessment is a war against the moral and intellectual diversity that has been the saving grace of our system of higher education

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HEARTLAND INSTITUTE EXPERTS REACT TO CONFIRMATION OF EDUCATION SECRETARY BETSY DEVOS

 

Betsy DeVos

 

The United States Senate today voted to confirm school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos as President Donald Trump’s first Secretary of Education. She was approved as the nation’s 11th Secretary of Education by a vote of 51–50, with Vice President Michael Pence casting the tie-breaking vote.

 

 

“The status quo in American education must be broken, and Betsy DeVos is the first nominee for the Department of Education who might actually break it. It is time to dismantle the ‘business-as-usual’ of the American district-based school system, and replace it with a system that puts parents and children first, not unions and patronage-based administration employment.”

 

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/press-release-heartland-institute-experts-react-to-confirmation-of-education-secretary-betsy-devos