Recently, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt sat down for a revealing conversation about school reform. His guests were Arnie Duncan, Secretary of Education, Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University, and John Engler, President of the Business Roundtable.
The consensus among participants was that the U.S. has huge deficiencies in its secondary education system, but that we are also making real progress. The challenge is working to speed up the positive developments and progress.
Said Engler, 'We need to have a system where everybody who leaves high school can go to college without remediation. We are nowhere close to that. And other nations are spending significantly less, but ramping up their performance significantly faster. We’ve got a gap to close."
The full interview can be accessed here: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/a-report-card-on-education…