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The Improvement of U.S. Public Schools by Lloyd Lofthouse
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Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2014
As amazing as this may sound, the democratically managed public schools in the United States have been slowly and steadily improving over the last 114 years [actually longer than that], and they continue to improve in spite of the false claims to the contrary.
How much of an improvement am I talking about?
In 1900, 6.4-percent of 17/18 year olds earned a secondary-level [high school] education.
In comparison, today, 90-percent of people 25 years old or over have earned a high school degree or its equivalent, and 33-percent have attained a college degree compared to the OECD—the other 33 developed—countries that have only an average 29-percent college graduation rate.
In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B. Du Bois poured so much of his blindingly incandescent soul into his writings that no single volume could ever contain all of his words or works. In fact, had not the his
