Bold, rigorous action needed to make schools top-notch Delawareonline.com The News Journal:
"Our students compete not only with their peers in Maryland and Pennsylvania or even California and Florida, they compete with young people from Japan and India and Great Britain and Norway and a host of other countries where learning is highly prized and students work hard and succeed in making themselves competitive in the modern world.Can we afford to continue to take small, incremental steps in our efforts to make the schools all that they must be? I don't think we can. We must take bold, rigorous action."
"Our students compete not only with their peers in Maryland and Pennsylvania or even California and Florida, they compete with young people from Japan and India and Great Britain and Norway and a host of other countries where learning is highly prized and students work hard and succeed in making themselves competitive in the modern world.Can we afford to continue to take small, incremental steps in our efforts to make the schools all that they must be? I don't think we can. We must take bold, rigorous action."