The debate over The Department of Education generally just boils down to the name.
"The Department of Good Things has failed in its mission. We should shutter it."
"What? Don't you support Good Things?"
The widely debunked claim that "every education statistic has gone down since the Department of Education was established!" points to a couple of claims as to why it's not true: High School Graduation Rates and College Degrees.
Both of those have gone up since 1979. Indisputably.
Of course, we've discussed the whole "people graduating without being proficient at reading or math" thing a hundred times and college graduation rates have been discussed a little less (but we've discussed Student Loan Forgiveness a bunch... the consensus does seem to be that the degrees aren't worth what the students paid for them).
And we're back to arguing over whether or not we support the idea of Good Things... therefore we should support The Department of Good Things.
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The debate over The Department of Education generally just boils down to the name.
"The Department of Good Things has failed in its mission. We should shutter it."
"What? Don't you support Good Things?"
The widely debunked claim that "every education statistic has gone down since the Department of Education was established!" points to a couple of claims as to why it's not true: High School Graduation Rates and College Degrees.
Both of those have gone up since 1979. Indisputably.
Of course, we've discussed the whole "people graduating without being proficient at reading or math" thing a hundred times and college graduation rates have been discussed a little less (but we've discussed Student Loan Forgiveness a bunch... the consensus does seem to be that the degrees aren't worth what the students paid for them).
And we're back to arguing over whether or not we support the idea of Good Things... therefore we should support The Department of Good Things.