Needed: A Governor to Launch Radical Change in Schools
By Mort Kondracke
Roll Call
What the Iraq Study Group said about the Iraq War situation - "grim and deteriorating" - has been echoed by another bipartisan commission, this one studying the state of American education.
It didn't use those exact words, but the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce warned that unless U.S. schools are improved radically, the country's standard of living will plunge over the next 20 years.
The commission, whose members included four former Cabinet officers, proposed a series of radical and most likely controversial changes designed to keep the U.S. from falling behind foreign competitors.
The reforms mainly require action at the state level, and one gutsy governor will be needed to start the process and serve as a model for the rest of the nation.
Roll Call
What the Iraq Study Group said about the Iraq War situation - "grim and deteriorating" - has been echoed by another bipartisan commission, this one studying the state of American education.
It didn't use those exact words, but the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce warned that unless U.S. schools are improved radically, the country's standard of living will plunge over the next 20 years.
The commission, whose members included four former Cabinet officers, proposed a series of radical and most likely controversial changes designed to keep the U.S. from falling behind foreign competitors.
The reforms mainly require action at the state level, and one gutsy governor will be needed to start the process and serve as a model for the rest of the nation.
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 7:49 PM
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