Education, as we know it in America, is too often characterized as living in a world by itself; unaccountable and unimproved--so different from the Real World. Year after year "Band-Aid" attempts are initiated to improve education and again, year after year, those attempts only produce marginal improvement--if any. Thus, our international ranking is still depicted as "mediocre;" documented by low levels of student learning (inexplicable low college admissions SAT scores), high drop-out rates (8300 high school students per day, yes per day), and disenchanted "stay-outs" (those who survived...

Education, as we know it in America, is too often characterized as living in a world by itself; unaccountable and unimproved--so different from the Real World. Year after year "Band-Aid" attempts are initiated to improve education and again, year after year, those attempts only produce marginal improvement--if any. Thus, our international ranking is still depicted as "mediocre;" documented by low levels of student learning (inexplicable low college admissions SAT scores), high drop-out rates (8300 high school students per day, yes per day) and disenchanted "stay-outs" (those who survived...