Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Education results in America
I think it's time for "pay for performance"; not, pay through the nose...
In this Wall Street Journal opinion column, Chester E. Finn, Jr. discusses our progress since 1983:
"And just as 'A Nation at Risk' warned, other countries are beginning to eat our education lunch. While our outcomes remain flat, theirs rise. Half a dozen nations now surpass our high-school and college graduation rates. International tests find young Americans scoring in the middle of the pack.
What to do now? It's no time to ease the push for a major K-12 education make-over – or to settle (as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton apparently would) for reviving yesterday's faith in still more spending and greater trust in educators. But we can distill four key lessons:"
