For all the talk behind increasing the school day or school year, hiring better credentialed teachers, or reducing class sizes, there really isn’t much evidence that these things help on the scale we need. Between 1960 and 2000, the pupil-teacher ratio went from 25.8 to 16.0, the percent of teachers with master’s degrees or better rose from 23.5 to 56.2, the median years of teacher experience climbed from 11 to 15, and our per-pupil expenditure skyrocketed from $2,235 to $7,591 (in 2000 dollars). School resources, on a per-student basis, let alone an absolute basis, went up by an astounding factor of 3.4, and what did we get for it? Reading and math stagnated, science dropped like a rock.
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Nu ştiu câţi dintre domniile voastre au apucat să citească Raportul Comisiei Miclea (Florin Călinescu l-a citit şi zice că e tare), dar eu am regăsit în paginile lui scenariul de mai sus, şi atunci întreb şi eu precum rusul Ce e de făcut?