Where progressive educational ideas and publishers' marketing strategies meet, opportunity can follow. A group of school administrators demonstrated that truth during the June 8 panel discussion. Their exchange covered a range of issues, from school choice to educational-materials options, and the intersection of the two. In the 1920s, he said, only about 25 percent of teenagers graduated high school. By the 1950s, more than half did.
States think in lockstep.
Districts, given the time and resources, can come up with solutions on student achievement. And outside vendors, she added, can help significantly in that process perhaps with local money, reallocated internally. She challenged those in publishing and in other for-profit education ventures many of whom have worked previously in public schools to explain their motivations to the former colleagues who now comprise their target market. I may know the answer, and that's inertia. Public education is plagued by inertia.