How to Fix Our Education System - WSJ.com:
"The problem is well-known: The U.S. lags far behind other developed countries at the K-12 level in terms of measured performance in math and science courses."
What can be done to change that? The Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray posed that question to three experts: Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education; Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania; and Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, who was also a member of the Obama administration transition team working on education issues.
Here are edited excerpts of their discussion:
It's the Teachers
A Fundamental Reworking
The Federal Role
Birthday Rant: At Lake Tenkiller, we have lost something special to
pollution
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[image: Tenkiller]his summer, I visited Flathead Lake in Montana with my
family, where I marveled at the water quality. I could open my eyes under
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