How do high stakes testing, school choice, voucher schemes and low funding work together? If you privatize and "outsource," if you make individual schools, parents and teachers solely responsible for their kids' progress with fewer resources to go on, then there has to be a bottom line, a measure of...

Within the boundaries of the United States there has been instituted an educational system of a vast importance. It has for that matter, been given a goal to manufacture people that will one day hopefully become productive members of the society in which they live. It can be argued for all intent...