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    Standardized Education: Moving America to the Right
    Standardized Education: Moving America to the Right
    Standardized Education: Moving America to the Right
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    Standardized Education: Moving America to the Right

    By Arthur Lieber and Carol Ruzicka

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    Our educational system is becoming increasingly hierarchical, most readily evidenced by the top-down approach to standardized testing. In "Standardized Education: Moving America to the Right", Arthur Lieber draws on his experience as an educator and a candidate for Congress to describe how schools are now designed to produce graduates who often lack critical thinking skills, have minimal creativity, and generally develop into political conservatives.
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    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456605391
    Standardized Education: Moving America to the Right

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      Standardized Education - Arthur Lieber

      meaningful.

      Part 1

      How Education Fails to Promote a Just and Compassionate Society

      Chapter 1

      The Importance of Empathy in Teaching and Learning

      There is one other item that is important to put on the table before proceeding any further. An underlying theme of much of what I say is the importance of empathy. A clear definition that Webster’s Dictionary gives of empathy is the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another person. In plainer English, it means being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

      Empathy is significant in terms of how people regard one another. It also relates to one’s political views. Within a school, it is important for students and teachers alike to be able to understand the perspective from which others come. If a student is having a difficult time at home, a teacher with empathy will cut that student some slack. A climate where there is such empathy can make the difference in terms of the student overcoming the hardships of home life.

      In politics, empathy can be extended to a group of people who have experienced hardship. The civil rights movement in the United States had the involvement and support of many white people because they were able to empathize with the plight of African-Americans. A legislative body that is supportive of increasing the minimum wage is empathetic because the members understand the hardships of those who are earning less than $14,500 a year. We can safely say that when anyone in our political process has genuine care and concern for those less fortunate, that individual will have a progressive perspective on politics. I am not going to hesitate to acknowledge that the ideas that I propose in this book to improve education have a basis in empathy. This means that they have a progressive political slant. My bottom line is this: Both education and politics will best be improved if policies are based on empathy.

      Some may say that I am applying a political bias to education. I am. But such bias exists in all schools, and usually it is a quite conservative one. The bias is conservative at least to the extent that it is designed to conserve the status quo. Our society is currently leaning to the right and will continue to so long as people are anxious about protecting their self-interest at the expense of generosity towards others in greater need. That’s one definition of

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