Three Can’t-Miss School Reforms
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Some excellent ideas from Arnold Kling in an article over at TCS. He has given all the explanations needed in the article. From the article it looks like he is referring to colleges, but I think these can be applied to K-12 schools as well. I don’t know that government would agree to having external examinations though, as that would provide a private industry with control over the public schools, which is not something they appear to want. I think anything that provides external accountability that the parents get feedback on would be a good thing. Even if you don’t get to transfer out of the school, if there is transparency in the process, then everyone could find out that the students in the school are performing badly in math, english, whatever, and demand an explanation of why, and a plan to change.