U.S. should look abroad for education reform, study says

In public education, America has stuck with a 100-year-old model originally intended to churn out factory workers -- while top competitors abroad have designed sleek new systems that mass-produce tomorrow's professionals.That conclusion could be drawn from a provocative new study that suggests American schools have been looking for reform in all the wrong places.It's not for a lack of trying. By the thousands, U.S. public schools have undergone overhauls, launched pilot projects and

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