Since the subject of other countries' excellence came up--
https://www.theatlantic.com/nationa...ng-about-finlands-school-success/250564/Maybe the secret sauce isn't what we Yankees keep thinking it is. Pretty sure that DeVos isn't all that interested in what Finland has discovered works, though.
Edward, you assume that American educators
are well-educated. In my experience, a dreadful percentage of them are not-- and they may wind up in education majors in college because they aren't well-suited to other things, and not because they are impassioned, smart, and well-suited to education in particular. That's not to say that those educators don't exist-- they do, and they always have-- but that they are rare, always have been, and are in fact often driven out of the profession by the misguided pressures placed upon them in actual classrooms.
Privatization isn't going to fix this.
