While the author's analysis of the current situation is fairly accurate, his predictions seem to me to be wildly off. There's a pretty strong movement going on

While the author's analysis of the current situation is fairly accurate, his predictions seem to me to be wildly off. There's a pretty strong movement going on, bringing scientific method to teaching. It's chronicled in a great NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html... Basically it boils down to: 1. Find good teachers, based on how much their students improve. (Students of the top 5% of teachers improve test scores a full year more per year than students of the bottom 5%). 2. Analyze what the good teachers do that works better than what other teachers do. (For a small example: Stand still while giving instructions: moving around distracts). 3. Teach these techniques to other teachers, and analyze the results. This process, if scaled, seems to me to have far more potential for improving the current system, than any wild-eyed tech-mediated vision of home-schooling [not to knock home schooling: it works great, but it ain't gonna scale to anywhere near a majority of the population].