Flailing States Must Look Abroad to Get Schools Back on Track, Says Report

When it comes to improving schools, states have pretty much closed their eyes and dropped the ball.

That's a primary conclusion of "No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State," a report released by the National Conference of State Legislatures on Tuesday. The report says that this failure on the part of states to create cohesive and strong schools has hamstrung the U.S., even as other countries produce better-educated students and workforces.

"States have found little success. Recent reforms have underperformed because of silver bullet strategies and piecemeal approaches," the NCSL report states, adding that other countries take very different approaches. "Pockets of improvement in a few districts or states is not enough to retain our country's global competitiveness."

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