If you've been to a junior high or an elementary school class lately, you'll probably see something you wouldn't have a year ago. It's so hot, in fact, America's trend-hungry advertising and marketing companies haven't even caught on. Youth Radio's Julie Kusnir reports. Before kids even get to college, they have to get through high school. Oregon voters recently defeated a ballot initiative aimed at improving high school education, by pegging teacher pay raises, to how well their students do on standardized tests.
Similar efforts are sure to keep cropping up.
From Oregon Public Broadcasting, we have this fanciful idea of how such a system might work in the real world.