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Revisionist History

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B2Upper-intermediateApril 1, 20255 min
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bureaucracy, technologies, and shifting social values.

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Today, many assume that the decline of American education was inevitable, a consequence of bureaucracy, technologies, and shifting social values. People love finding something simple to blame the decline on, so that they can claim how bad things are and that we just need to go back to the good old days.

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But what if we've been looking at it all wrong? What if it's the entire system that's been rotten and we're just now noticing it? Have we ever been able to trust the American school system? Hi, I'm Caden Bishop and in this episode of Revisionist History 2.0 we're revisiting

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what's meant to be the blueprints of American society, the school systems. We often hear that American schools were better in the past, back when a high school diploma really meant something. Disciplines were supposedly stronger, more respectful students and teachers serving as

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