By Kenneth M. Weinig, founding Headmaster of The Independence School in Newark, Del, found in the Education Week, June 14, 2000
- Multiculturalism
- Failure to Challenge Gifted Students
- The Misinterpretation of Bloom’s Taxonomy (lower levels of learning like basic facts have been ignored, making mastery of “higher levels” impossible)
- Rapid Developmentalism (by tending to force every student to conform to an average developmental level)
- Faulty Educational Theories (“egalitarianism, overemphasis on self-esteem, feeling over thinking, and a contempt for authority in general and direct instruction in particular”)
- The Re-Norming of the SATs
- Anti-Merit Faculty-Compensation Systems
- Teacher Tenure
- Students’ Rights Court Decisions (weakening or shattering effective discipline)
- Church-State Court Decisions (“the censorship of prayer and sectarian theology would also result in the banishment of values”)
