The main "education problem" in the US is cost, and this has little to do with the quality of the students. I partly agree with you there, the administration c

The main "education problem" in the US is cost, and this has little to do with the quality of the students. I partly agree with you there, the administration costs are atrocious. However, as a percentage of GDP you are low down the list on education spending even while you are near the top on spending per capita, so economically the US could afford to spend a lot more while at the same time what is being spent seems to be spent rather badly. Personally I suspect spending a fair bit more, but firing three quarters of the management staff would be not a bad start. I also think that raising both the wages and required qualifications of teachers would be a good idea, with paid for education available to current teachers who don't yet meet those standards, and job reviews and some redundancies for those teachers who really can't hack it. Teaching at a state school should be a very well paid, highly sought after, difficult to get into and thoroughly respected profession.