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Education has been broken for a long time. Perhaps when we proclaimed that no child would be left behind, the opposite is exactly what we proceeded to do. It is nearly identical to the weight-loss craze where we create a billion dollar industry, not to fix the problem, but to keep us in this perpetual loop of not fixing the problem. It is very clear what the solution is. Better teacher pay and smaller classes sizes which is indicative of respect for the teaching profession

For the past 24 years we have lived under the reign of S.T.E.M. as defined by Judith Ramaley when she coined it for the National Science Foundation (NSF). A decade ago I met an older gentleman who described it as the latest fad, and I found that perspective curious. I thought everyone had bought into the idea that we needed more S.T.E.M. in education, but I was wrong, and his statement was the first crack in a crumbling facade. Though we always agreed that reading, writing