Serious debates about the future of K-12 education in the United States must reckon with two realities. First, government funding for public education has never been higher, crossing the $1 trillion mark for the first time just a few years ago. Second, student academic performance is abysmal by historical standards. Test scores plunged in the aftermath of…
Americaโs public education system is ripe for an overhaul โ and desperately in need of a coherent reform agenda to bring one about. Itโs time to wrest control of the schools from out-of-touch education bureaucrats and the ideological groupthink that dominates the teacher training-policy complex. For too long, our schools have focused on the clinical,…