Books Misses the Real Problem with Education

In her review of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, linked on the national web site, townhall.com, Karen Palasek writes that while the book is a great look at the failure of public education, the authors fail to acknowledge that the public system itself is the culprit. “The authors of No Excuses are stumped,” she writes. “They cannot embrace an unregulated private market for education, or see a nongovernment solution to the racial learning gap. This leaves them with little more to anticipate, finally, than a bitter contest over who will eventually control the contents – regulations, accountability standards, curriculum, etc. – of the government education box.