“What they also are trying to do is replace an approach to teaching that teaches students how to think with an approach that teaches the students what to think.”
Are there any schools left (public or private) that haven't succumbed to this? (to at least some degree)
Obviously it's much more obvious and pervasive with organizations like the one in question (where they clearly have an agenda-driven platform), but it seems like some other organizations aim for a similar goal (the goal being "make the voters of tomorrow vote the way I do today"), just using a different pathway to get there.
For instance, if there were two schools, and one puts in their mission statement:
"We'll make sure your kids think Fords are better than Chevys"
and the other simply opts to stack their staff and curriculum with Pro-Ford viewpoints and perspectives that would steer someone in that direction...
It becomes something of a distinction without a difference.
2-year vocational training needs to make a comeback in our country.
A) Simply for financial reasons (the debt people end up with is staggering)
B) The whole purpose of what college was supposed to be for has been somewhat perverted. Most kids go to college because we tell kids "You go to college so you can get a good job", when that's not really what the original point of a liberal arts education was supposed to be. It was supposed to be to pursue interests for "leisure" of sorts. Now it just produces deeply in-debt people who leave with the impression that society owes them a career in whatever thing they're passionate about.