The Only Way There Will Ever Be a Crisis in Education

is if the neoliberals are allowed to destroy it. Thanks to swallowing an insane economic ideology, our "leaders" are hellbent on creating a crisis:

Everyone knows that our public school system is a mess, far worse than it’s ever been. Teachers’ unions, more than any other factor, stand in the way of making progress toward a brighter future, where graduation rates are up, test scores stop falling, and we restore our education system to its former greatness. If we only convert the current public schools into charter schools, we can achieve this goal.

Everyone knows this.

Everyone is wrong.

Despite being underfunded, undervalued and vilified, America’s teachers are by any measure doing a better job today than they ever have before. Graduation rates are up. Test scores are, too. American students graduate from high school with better education than they ever have in our nation’s history.

Of course they are. But then the neolibs will keep moving the goal posts until there comes a day when such achievement will be impossible to attain.

Kind of like that ridiculous NCLB goal of having every student, including special education and ESL students, be proficient at his or her grade level by 2014. Impossible.