Busting The Big Blob
So we will move to a more European model, where business helps ensure that students learn at least minimal skills. Sure, executives smell technology profit in the lucrative education market. But they are also genuinely fed up with job applicants unable to read their own high-school diplomas. Japanese kids do five times as much homework as Americans. Why? The CEOs mince no words, and bring briskness and focus to the soupy, unfocused word of educational reform....