GEOFFREY CANADA- THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM WE NEED IF AMERICA IS TO SURVIVE (Geoffrey Canada-Sistema de Educación Pública que necesitamos si AMERICA ES PARA SOBREVIVIR)
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
The following video is well worth the half hour or so it will take to watch it. It focuses on the same issues that we at perdaily have been trying to get across for the last 2 years as to what is at stake in purposefully failed public education system in a crisis of a magnitude that threatens the very future of this country. Like all those serious about real and quantifiable public education reform, Canada finds that this truth is something most people outside of education and even those in government charged with fixing public education, have yet to fully comprehend. But Canada has the data and the experience to know just how true this statement is in a country where 75% of those