The 2013 Texas Legislature will be under pressure to reform the state’s public education system with an eye toward improving efficiency. Personnel and staffing structures have long been sources of inefficiency in Texas’ public schools.
A Double “Return” on Education
From across the political spectrum, voters rural and urban and suburban, everyone I talk to has a theory about what has gone so wrong with American education. From cellphones to laptops, the culture wars and the pandemic, teacher pay and teacher burnout, weak discipline and bad curriculum to collapsing standards, there are no shortage of...