> people pushing ideology
University Education programs and as a result teaching bodies have been taken over by ideology.
I believe it is in part because all the teaching low hanging fruit has been established for centuries. So the only 'novel' things the programs can do is talk about discrimination, disparate outcomes and hand-wavey ideas about improving education. The departments have some of the lowest bars for academic professorship and as a result, the quality of research is similarly bad -> terrible.
The war on phonics is the canonical example.
The fault doesn't lie with 'people'. The above mentioned institutions are squarely at fault for making education ideological, and they should explicitly be blamed for the deterioration in student performance.
It shouldn't be controversial, and in some sense it isn't (in another sense it is, because people confuse themselves), that everyone should be given the opportunity to develop and perform at their full potential. I could name multiple different ideologies that oppose this in some way, though.
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
The only other option is for college administrators to be disturbingly stupid.
Someone who knows how the world works! Qui bene --
https://ucsdguardian.org/2025/09/29/uc-regents-greenlight-uc...
> The expansion anticipates 13,600 new students in the next 15 years
In America many parents do have resources, though, and they will spend those on private schools, tutoring, or home schooling.
> It is the drive of student and higher standards from parents and teachers that matters.
These proposals restrict the teachers and disallow teaching advanced subjects to students with drive to learn them.
You can’t say it’s up to the students and teachers while also holding back the students and restricting the teachers.
It does appear to be reversing a little bit in some places as schools realize they were fooled by people pushing ideology over data and results, but it’s going to take a while.
For those who aren’t in the loop: There’s an ideological push to eliminate testing, aptitude tests, and even to eliminate different educational tracks (accelerated learning programs, AP classes, advanced math tracts) in the name of pursuing equality for everyone. The idea of testing people for aptitude or allowing some students to go into more advanced classes than others is not allowed by some ideologically-driven people who think all students must be given strictly equal education at every grade level.