Gates: Education is Failing

This is what the world's richest man, who founded the biggest tech company the world has ever seen has to say about the low standards of American high schools:

"Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe," said Gates, whose $27-billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made education one of its priorities"

If our high schools can't graduate students who can excel in college or in high tech work, we are in trouble. If China continues to graduate five times as many engineers and scientists as the US, we are in trouble. The US needs education reform, curriculum reform not just funding reform, or we will be in big trouble.

Timothy Burger