[Chancie]

I know...he's a celebrity...but, I am glad someone called President Obama out on this. In our Canadian system, schools who perform lower, get MORE funding, smaller class sizes, and other remedial tools to help their lower achieving students (who are, always, from disadvantaged areas).

I think bureaucrats would say that is true here, but my experience is that none of the proferred solutions are what actual teachers and schools need to help their students learn.

Even at my own school, where I have been very happy teaching, the move is towards collecting data, rather than professional development.

In the next very few years, all of the administrators will be 35+ year old men who have very little teaching experience.