Improving K-12 Education in America - by Heather Heying
Encourage open inquiry and, in high school, longer-term projects, rather than checklists of methods or outcomes that are currently being passed off as science.
For instance: How long is the sun above the horizon on the Winter solstice? Are there flowers growing in March? How about in a state far away? Why is there a difference?
Bring back Shop and Home Economics classes. Do not restrict access to classes by sex, but also do not expect equal interest in each class by members of both sexes.
Later start times for schools, especially middle and high schools (whose students can and should be encouraged to be responsible for getting themselves started in the mornings).
Reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test, which encouraged individual excellence. It was replaced in 2013 with the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, which instead focuses on equity and inclusion. Bring competition back.
Sex Ed: proceed with caution. No trans ideology. Encourage children to be whatever they want to be, except the impossible. No child can become a dragon or a butterfly; similarly, no boy can become a girl, nor can any girl become a boy.
