[bandrami]

Where did you get the idea that US public schools are in some kind of crisis? They're doing pretty well, like they always have, but people are remarkably willing to simply accept claims (often by parties with financial interests in making them) that they aren't.

[WalterBright]

> Where did you get the idea that US public schools are in some kind of crisis?

Declining achievement levels, the perfectly horrible results in inner city schools, and the disparities between different racial groups.

[bandrami]

> Declining achievement levels

Nope. Do the homework here.

> the perfectly horrible results in inner city schools

Another claim remarkably free of any data

> the disparities between different racial groups.

African American kids today score better than white kids 30 years ago did.