A newspaper or blog post is probably the wrong medium for this question. It's one I explored in detail when I was evaluating an opportunity in the education sp

A newspaper or blog post is probably the wrong medium for this question. It's one I explored in detail when I was evaluating an opportunity in the education space between September and January. There are a variety of big problems in the education space, most of which centre around the problems of bureaucracy. Here the fundamental issue is that it's extremely difficult for school boards that are offering the same salary scale to everyone regardless of skills/subjects (which is the norm in Canada and much of the U.S.) to get similar levels of teaching talent for subjects that are highly in demand. This tends to lead to a notion of progress that involves reducing the math curriculum to the point where the "math" teachers you have can actually teach it well. This is often spun as giving everyone more opportunity for success or presented as innovation to curriculum, and many buy into that spin. The answer of teaching better is the best solution when it's actually possible, but the combination of convincing government to spend it, and convincing the unions to allow it to be spent well is nearly impossible. The net result is something similar to the system we have. Perhaps worst of all, entrepreneurs get scared away from the space because there isn't anything worse than dealing with enterprise style sales processes for sales numbers that simply are not.