Fixing Education: Where Do We Begin?
Niall Ferguson: going on a world tour and seeing which systems do the best job seems like a pretty good starting place to me.
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We’re trying to work out what is wrong with education in the United States, and particularly with secondary education.
There’s actually something very simple we could do and that’s just to look at what the best practice is abroad. And being more comparative in our approach, going on a world tour and seeing which systems do the best job seems like a pretty good starting place to me.
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