E-Knowledge Leaders . It's Virtually Here by Ed Duggan Educators and the public alike agree that the U.S. education system is flawed and needs major improvement. Half the education budget is spent on grades K through 12. Yet money doesn't stop administrators, teachers, parents and students from complaining about the bureaucratic and cumbersome status-quo operating system.
Content is also behind the times.
Textbook revisions can take years to accomplish as they make their way through the bureaucratic approval process. The paperwork burden on teachers is enormous. Bright students are being turned off and parents alienated. The system is broken because it was never designed to serve today's information technology society. Every child must be educated.