February 12, 2009
Boutique Grant Making Is Toying With Change
We pay more per pupil for our elementaryand secondary-education system than any other industrialized country except Switzerland, yet the United States ranks near the bottom in performance. For the price they pay, Americans should expect the learning equivalent of a Lexus. Instead, we're bumping along in a Chevy Nova while our economic competitors zoom past us, fueled by well-educated work forces.
If education were a product and the United States were a corporation, we would try and
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