Education Secretary Arne Duncan counting on business leaders to help push through school reforms

Source: Chicago Tribune Posted By: Lillie S...5406 days ago

Ask almost any business executive about the U.S. public school system, and the answer is typically the same -- unprintable.

In general, business has a beef with the way schools are run. Name a common practice, and chances are business doesn't like it: the performance evaluations and teacher pay; the math and science curricula; the governance, bureaucracy and union job protections.

Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable have lots of ideas for fixing what they view as....

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