Apr 08

I Know What I Am

Wed, 04/08/2009 - 09:39 — darthclue

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/education.school.year/index.html

Duncan said American students are "at a competitive disadvantage" because the United States has shorter school years than other countries such as India and China.

The competitive disadvantage is that our public schools are a failure. Longer school years will not change this. Changing what we teach and how we teach it is the only way to solve this problem.