Commentary
What can stakeholders do to improve universities in California and beyond—both private and public?
A good start would be to pare down or dismantle the unnecessary federal Department of Education (DOE), which apparently is unfolding at this time. A recent Epoch Times survey found that the vast majority of respondents were in favor of scaling back or even shuttering the agency.
The DOE funds a small portion of public education, and much is ideologically driven rather than guided by rigorous academic models. Utilizing phonics to learn reading should have been a major priority, but it wasn’t. Overall, the DOE has been complicit in mediocre or poor results in educational outcomes for students since it was established in 1980….