Right now what we're lacking in the national debate is a vision of what a great educational system can look like.
"When I look at London [I see] a place in which we are able to attract great talent, find great talent in the UK, thanks to a great educational system here, but it has also been a place where people are willing to come from anywhere in the world.
And here I thought Cuba had this great educational system.
America provides Joe every platform for success a great educational system, a stable economic environment, good roads, robust markets, a respected legal system for collecting debts, and a thousand other benefits that Joe would not trade in a heartbeat for a plumbing business anywhere else in the world.
"Being able to learn and grow in this position and to work so closely with an active, involved community and very strong Board of Trustees has only helped me to grow and improve and be part of a great educational system," he said.
But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a bonfire to a tried-and-true technology — good old paper — that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet.
At the same time these countries score at the very top of the "happiness index," have very low crime and corruption rates, great educational systems, strong economies, well-supported arts, free health care, egalitarian social policies.
Then, the early years of the five highly competitive James children, born between 1842 and 1848, constantly moving around from Albany, New York, Europe, Newport, and Boston, undergoing a great many educational systems, subject to their father's erratic, intense demands and moral ambitions, a bewildering mixture of free choice, high expectations and close surveillance.
But despite great effort, the educational system as a whole has been unable to apply this truth on a broad scale, to produce better results, until now.
Furthermore, there are even greater challenges for the educational system.
