Blame Someone Else

Came across an interesting little posting about the US education system this morning.

This is one of those topics where you really have to wonder about someone who has a categorical, black-and-white opinion. It's complex, hard to test and always changing.

That said, the writer does throw enough caution in the air to rain on the folks who like to blame schools for all of our ills and try to convince us that in the good old days, everyone learned their ABCs...