To fix US schools, panel says, start over
by Amanda Paulson
A bipartisan group of scholars and business leaders, school chancellors and education commissioners, and former cabinet secretaries and governors declare that America's public education system, designed to meet the needs of 100 years ago when the workplace revolved around an assembly line, is unsuited to today's global marketplace. Already, they warn, many Americans are in danger of falling behind and seeing their standard of living plummet.
Christian Science Monitor, 12/15/2006