Jay Evensen: Some radical ideas to reform public schools

Public education doesn't requiring reforming. We've reformed it to death, literally. Thirty years ago, children went to school to learn. They sat in a classroom, they learned how to read, write, and complete math assignments. They learned More..

Why not study the (gasp) foreign models that seem to be working better and emulate them? No need to reinvent the wheel.

It isn't our schools causing this, at least not entirely. We may not produce writers and thinkers, but we produce basketball and football players at a #1 level. People in Estonia and the Slovak republic see real value in knowledge, here we do More..