The phrase "ailing education" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an education system that is struggling or facing significant challenges.
Example: "The report highlights the issues plaguing our ailing education system, calling for immediate reforms to improve student outcomes."
Alternatives: "failing education" or "struggling education system".
The notion of raising taxes to assist an ailing education system was endorsed 10 years ago by Bob Riley, then the governor of Alabama, a Republican who saw it as the properly Christian thing to do.
She has consistently brought compassion and complexity to the role but as her Tami Taylor ascended to the job of Dillon High School principal this past season, Ms. Britton rose to new challenges, embodying the tensions -- economic, bureaucratic, emotional -- at the center of an ailing education system.
Many so-called educational reformers see technology as the panacea for what ails education in America, but technology is more a cause of what ails education than a cure for it.
"We are constantly attacked on so many levels for what ails education in our country when we know that it takes a community to help children learn: principals, administrators, parents, lawmakers, and yes, teachers.
Mr Friedman is a passionate Texan who is taking this race very seriously by bringing issues to the public eye that other candidates steer away from and by offering remedies for the ailing state education system.
Trouble is, we'll never solve what ails education without getting bad teachers out and paying up for new talent to come in.
"She may be unaware of what's broken in our public schools and how to fix it," said Murkowski, who said that her state includes many isolated rural communities where vouchers and charter schools are not reasonable solutions to what ails education.
But the chancellor on Tuesday pushed back against the idea that charters are the answer to what ails public education.
Evidence shows "high stakes" tests like exit exams that determine whether a student can graduate, are the wrong prescription for what ails public education.
I began to wonder whether more "Stuyvesants" are the answer to what ails higher education.
The Common Core is not a silver bullet for all that ails our education system.
