You can see rising achievement in Texas, where they have had their TAAS test for 10 or 15 years. They are beginning to blow the top off of that test. They started to do public shaming. They ranked their schools number 1 to number 3,000 or 4,000. It makes a difference if you publish how well schools are doing.
Schools have a reason now to worry about their performance.
Where this country really excels is in expenditure, and there is a Fordham Foundation report out with charts and graphs showing this. We are topping most nations. We are number three in the world in most indicators in terms of per person allocations for education, but our efficiencies are very low. We really have to wonder what is going on in the United States. But we are beginning to see academic achievement break out in some areas.