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Charter schools: Even as we are slavishy copying daft ideas from USA, they are try to dump them

Posted by: Observer on 08, Dec, 2011

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Why Innovation Can't Fix America's Classrooms by Marc Tucker

 

  “You would think that, being far behind our competitors, we would be looking hard at how they are managing to outperform us. But many policymakers, business leaders, educators and advocates are not interested. Instead, they are confidently barreling down a path of American exceptionalism, insisting that America is so different from these other nations that we are better off embracing unique, unproven solutions that our foreign competitors find bizarre.”

We in NZ know just what you mean Marc!

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