Bashing unionization and the fact schools are a successful public entity comprise the extent of rightwing influence in education. The "accountability movement" arose in response to their demonization, and thus the standardized testing obsession, as a means of having something to measure teaching effectiveness by, despite its engendering low-level thinking activity detrimental to children's development. In the meantime competing countries are pushing creative real-world problem solving in their unionized education systems, making their profession more attractive to the best-and-brightest via collective bargaining in the market. Just another gift from spiteful and illiterate rightwing ideology.
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