Education Reform -- is it possible?

This article from New Yorker Magazine is at once encouraging and discouraging.  It is encouraging because it describes some pretty sincere reformers who are desperately trying to minimize the damage done to the students in New York by the unions and their Democrat Party supporters..  It is sad that generations of children in the public school system in New york have been sacrificed to the economic well being of teachers above all other considerations. This article is a clarion call for privatizing the education system which is now captive of the regressive, and anti progressive unions and the Democrat Party.


ADDED:  5/25.10.  Steve Brill reports here for the NYT on the reform movement now proceeding in the education world.  It's all about breaking the back and control of the two unions who control the teachers.  No competition means monopoly, means no progress, means more and more failing schools.  This tragedy is so unecessary.  At least there seems to be a sincere attempt to effect reforms tha mean something for the future of the children and the country.  This is a worthwhile read.