Why We Need to Reform Education Now
Source: huffingtonpost. Posted By: Barba R...4019 days ago
What should America do about its disastrous high school dropout rate? That's the focus of TEDTalks Education, the first ever TED/PBS television special, hosted by John Legend, the award-winning musician. The program looks not only at what's going wrong in high schools, but how to put it right. As it happens, the solution is not a mystery; but putting it into practice will involve a major shift in current policies.
In 1970, the U.S. had the highest rates of high school graduation in the world,....