There is no victory, no chance of restoring education, unless their misinformation machine is destroyed. If not, the players may change, but the story just repeats.
IMO, you have it backwards.
If US education, specifically public education, had been effective over the past 20-40 years, the Trump misinformation machine would never have had a chance to become ingrained in society.
We need to completely recreate education to change the story, not just restore it.
The conservative misinformation machine has convinced parents, for decades, that their children’s education is brainwashing them. As long as it’s the louder voice, there is no progress. Misinformation is a cancer. You don’t educate cancer. You kill it, or it spreads to the entire body.
If you want to kill misinformation in US education, you're going to have to retire or retrain from scratch 2/3 of the current cadre of K-12 teachers. It's not just what they don't know, it's also what they "know that isn't so". Especially about science, mathematics, and literature.
Yes, educators can also be influenced by misinformation. Again, it has to be stamped out before any progress can be made. When conservatives media becomes quieter, influence over everyone, including educators, weakens.
Look no further than the 2001 NCLB act by Bush.
It measured schools, with serious penalties for failure, on reading, writing, and math - lesser so on science. There was no measure at all on history, social studies, or civics.
Guess which subjects schools didn't spend all their energy on?
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If US education, specifically public education, had been effective over the past 20-40 years, the Trump misinformation machine would never have had a chance to become ingrained in society.
We need to completely recreate education to change the story, not just restore it.
THEN we tackle the endemic issues.
It measured schools, with serious penalties for failure, on reading, writing, and math - lesser so on science. There was no measure at all on history, social studies, or civics.
Guess which subjects schools didn't spend all their energy on?