Sunday, November 20, 2011

NIALL FERGUSON: Hey, Protesters, Stop Blaming Wall Street -- The Problem Is Our Crappy Education System

NIALL FERGUSON: Hey, Protesters, Stop Blaming Wall Street -- The Problem Is Our Crappy Education System:
The remedy, Ferguson contends, is not to tax the rich and expand federal programs as Sachs recommends. Instead, Ferguson says public high schools need more competition to raise the bar. The best way to do that, in his opinion, is to create more charter schools. "The charter school movement is one very straightforward way in which the ordinary citizen can actually help improve the quality of high school education."