Three Ds for Education Reform: Dollars, Data, and Digitization

Heroes and villains abound when it comes to considering the failings of America's schools. And sometimes they're one and the same.

Charter schools are the salvation of our education system and dangerously overhyped. Teachers are underpaid professionals making enormous personal sacrifices or a group of bad apples protected by a powerful union. Federal mandates could prove to be invaluable measures that help ensure consistency or inadequate ways to evaluate the complex skills needed by today's graduates. Web access can help unlock the potential of students or serve as a distraction that hinders any true learning.