More useless advice from the establishment types: How to Fix the Education Crisis

Economic success begins in the classroom—which does not bode well for the future of the U.S. economy. American students rank 25th in math and 21st in science, compared with students in 30 industrialized countries, and the Broad Foundation estimates $192 billion in lost income and taxes due to dropouts each year. So how do we fix American education? To answer that question—the second in our quarterly Fix This series—Bloomberg Businessweek Chairman Norman Pearlstine gathered Steven Brill, author of Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools; Margaret Spellings, Education Secretary from 2005-2009, now president and CEO of Margaret Spellings & Co as well as a strategic adviser to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and president of its U.S. Forum for Policy Innovation; Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology); Michele Cahill, vice-president for national program and director of urban education at Carnegie Corp. of New York; and Louis V. Gerstner Jr., former chairman and chief executive officer of IBM (IBM) and co-author of Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in America’s Public Schools. Their conversation has been condensed and edited.

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The crap is here: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2011-10-13/how-to-fix-the-education-crisis

More useless advice from the establishment types: How to Fix the Education Crisis

More useless advice from the establishment types: How to Fix the Education Crisis

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