ReformK12 meets World

January 24, 2004

Up to 25% of the visitors to ReformK12.com hail from outside the United States. A recent sampling includes Canada, France, Great Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Thailand, and Australia and a few souls from the Pacific rim.

The issues of education reform are global.

In many places, the traditionalists are fighting the progressives, and the battle is one that will probably never end. The progressive movement is so pernicious because they believe in what they're doing, and thus has taken hold in an unfortunate number of countries.

This is illustrated by an email we received from a college professor in France, who writes, "Here we have the same problems that you have in the States, especially in primary and secondary education (low expectations, fuzzy curricula, lack of discipline....)."

And on the other end of the spectrum, the students aren't exactly blind to what's going on. One problem is political indoctrination, especially in high school. A 17-year old Canadian blogger describes her midterm exam in English class, complaining that the teacher threw a curve on the exam and had students contrast several political articles, asking how people affect change. (Ah yes, one of the social justice goals of Progressivism is to affect change!)

She writes, "Therefore, I don't think the exam was really a test of our English skills, but rather, a test of the political knowledge we already had and the ability to form an opinion about something I have no clue about."

Hello world!

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Update: (2/1/2004) The actual daily average is anywhere from 10% to 25%, so we changed the first line. We've also posted a colored map and a list of countries here.