And that is, if the current "top" is not just better U.S. schools, but is comparing ours to those of other Western democracies, then why aren't we actually trying to learn from them?
Do schools need reforming? Yes, I would agree. I would agree that Race to the Top is stimulating some good ideas.
But, maybe we do need to look elsewhere, too.
Why aren't we studying what we can learn from Europe, Japan and South Korea? Like longer school years, in exchange for more spending on public schools? (We may be the world's No. 1in education spending, but that's driven in part by our huge lead in collegiate and graduate school budgets. On K-12 spending, we barely crack the Top 20.)
That said, the states who pulled out of Race to the Top due to "local control" concerns are part of the problem, not the solution.
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