I believe that all of the things people are so worried about in education, all the charter schools and testing and leaving behind and racing to the top are trying to fix a problem which is not an educational problem, it's a poverty problem. If wages were higher, health insurance was universal and welfare was both universally available and not for such a limited time then the educational problems in the US would fall away. Then they could stop with all the crazy testing and second guessing of teachers and all the homework.
But that will never ever happen, because people care more about punishing poor people than anything else.
