Wednesday, November 03, 2010
FoxNews.com - If Schools Were Like 'American Idol' ...
There are some ugly statistics in this article.
It's NOT a money problem, so...
It's NOT a money problem, so...
Rupert Murdoch recently wrote about it:
"The College Board recently put this into global perspective when it reported that we've dropped from 1st to 12th place in the percentage of people between the ages of 25 to 34 who have a college degree. America is now in danger of producing a new generation that will be less educated than their parents.
Clearly it's not for any lack of money. Over the past three decades, we've nearly doubled spending on K-12 education in real terms. So President Obama was absolutely right to declare the other day that 'we can't spend our way out of this problem.' Which begs the question: How can we spend so much with so little to show for it?"
