(PRWEB) November 18, 2014

American 15-year-olds ranked 36th in the world out of 65 participating countries tested in math, 28th in science and 24th in reading. And measures to better student performance and literacy over the last decade and a half, beginning with No Child Left Behind, have only made things worse, writes Freedom reporter Ray Richmond.

Why? Many educators believe that centralized measures like No Child Left Behind and Common Core have given rise to a punitive testing culture and led to an overall compromise of American public school education.

Teachers are largely scapegoated for declining student performance, as in Time magazines November 3 cover story ROTTEN APPLES: Its Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher, Some Tech Millionaires May Have Found a Way to Change That. But through interviews with veteran educators, Richmond discovers a very different picturethat teachers are not the problem, but the answer to the crisis in Americas schools.

Also in the November issue of Freedom:

Shock TreatmentElectroconvulsive therapy got a public relations makeover, but is the procedure any less ugly?

Tibets Long Journey to FreedomA nations struggle for freedom, with its strongest advocates of human rights living in exile.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Luzzader on cultural biases, built-in and nurtured by the BBC.

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Freedom Magazine on Failing Education Reform