What in the above qualifies him to set standards for education?

It’s just a little like charter schools in that it doesn’t go far enough to really change much, since the teachers and administrators and all the usual voices will still come from the same old system.

I think we need not just standards but entire teaching orders, where intelligent groups write standards but also write curriculum, train teachers and run schools. These orders should be private without power to coerce.

Then we need several of them, that would respond to the visions of reality that animates various groups in society.

Then we need a charter or voucher system, allowing parents to freely choose which satisfies them.

Then the ranks of pundits and gurus and change marketers only need to persuade clients that they have something worth listening to.

Oh wait, it bombed big time,so why not let him experiment a little more with children?

I would truly trust an outside foundation to pay people to write a better test than any professional association of educators would write (not could, would).

We have tons of poorly done laws and curriculum, designed by foundations, which are truly awful.

Feel free to send your child to their experimental schools but mine won’t be going.

yeah, because the results we’ve gotten from the State have been so great!

We allow national standards for medical boards from private non profits. We have national standards for most engineering disciplines from private non profits. We have state wide national standards for attorneys. Can anyone tell me what they are objecting to?