"There is a narrative spun by Disrupters that American schools are "failing" & in "crisis" this is baloney!" American public schools are among the best in the world. What holds us back is our high rates of child poverty. The biggest problem in American education, aside from our national indifference to the well-being of students, is that we have a crazy federal law that makes test scores the goal of education. That’s backwards. Test scores are supposed to be a measure, not a goal. We should aim to be more like Finland, which not only has high test scores without test prep, but has been rated the happiest country in the world. Less testing, more time for the arts and more attention to creativity and divergent thinking. Teachers with autonomy and a love of teaching."