Education deformed: No child left behind and the race to the top. 'This almost reads like our business plans'

摘要

Shrill critics of public education have manufactured a crisis. They claim that today's public education system is "broken," that schools are "dropout academies," that teachers are failing. These sweeping conclusions are based solely on lower achievement test scores and high school graduation rates in the poorest localities. Critics ignore the generally good education that public school teachers and principals provide in our suburbs and prosperous city neighborhoods.