As a teacher for 26 years, I’ve seen how we dumbed down education — and how kids suffer

Jeremy Adams : What does modern classroom instruction look like these days ? A lot of it is not very good, but unless we acknowledge the hollowness of conventional classroom instruction, it won’t make a difference.

He says students suffer from a pathology of low expectations for themselves and especially for their teachers.

Adams: In a vegetative educational system, scholastic rigor is euthanized.