If you ranked individual US states among countries, you'd find that many of them are near the very top. (As a whole, the US can't compete against tiny countries like Luxembourg because of the law of large numbers.) Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for the badly performing states to look at the well performing states rather than foreign countries? There will be fewer confounding variables and cultural hurdles to applying lessons learned.
In any case, as soon as an author writes something like
>To many in the financial community, these market-inspired reform ideas are very appealing.
I know this is smear job rather than an intellectually honest appraisal. I mean, really. We shouldn't try new models of schooling because they are basically like the financial crisis? Are you kidding me?
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If you ranked individual US states among countries, you'd find that many of them are near the very top. (As a whole, the US can't compete against tiny countries like Luxembourg because of the law of large numbers.) Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for the badly performing states to look at the well performing states rather than foreign countries? There will be fewer confounding variables and cultural hurdles to applying lessons learned.
In any case, as soon as an author writes something like
>To many in the financial community, these market-inspired reform ideas are very appealing.
I know this is smear job rather than an intellectually honest appraisal. I mean, really. We shouldn't try new models of schooling because they are basically like the financial crisis? Are you kidding me?