Three ways the education system is failing our kids and what we need to do about it
Americans have a belief in our education system as a place of egalitarianism. It may be the single point within our lives where our collective “bootstrap” ideal is most noticeable - in the pressures we put on students, in the institutions and performance markers we have created, in the very way we discuss the problems of education. But our system is not fair, equal, or meritocratic. Those rising aren’t always the objective best. Money plays a role, but our problems are founda