The New York Post – Alan Shusterman
” This month, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan vowed to invest nearly all of their fortune — a staggering $45 billion — in philanthropic causes over the course of the rest of their lifetimes. They highlighted education — personalized learning in particular — as a key area of focus. That’s great news. Their money, however, isn’t even necessary to provide the changes desperately needed in K-12 education in this country. The United States has plenty to spend on education — roughly $950 billion this coming year alone. Instead of continuing to throw good money after bad, it’s time for us to turn our ample resources toward capitalizing on the power of technology and new, evidence-based methods to customize learning for every student. American children are underperforming. In a recent international assessment, the United States ranked 27th out of 64 nations in science and 35th in math. One in five children who enter our K-12 system fails to graduate.”(more)