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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Teach the Children Well
Description: Uncover U.S. education challenges and solutions with Shawn Benjamin, principal of a successful Bay area charter school.
One of the many challenges facing the United States today is an education system that seems to be rotting from the bottom: while graduate and professional schools are still world-class, elementary, middle and high schools are widely criticized for failing to prepare American kids for the future.
Consider:
In recent international comparative testing, U.S. eighth graders produced their lowest scores ever in math. One-third of them scored in the lowest-performing category. Indeed, the United States had...