Deck Chairs on the Titanic Failure of American Education

Whatever happened to Reading, Writing and Aritmatic?
 Huffington Post via Jon Pelto

Stress inhibits learning, so we design stressful expectations; dopamine (from pleasurable activities) enhances learning, so we remove joy from schools; homework has very limited usefulness with negative returns after an hour or so (for elementary age kids), so we demand more hours of work; the importance of exercise in brain development is inarguable, so we eliminate recess and gym; the arts are central to human understanding, but we don't have time. 

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