A New Vision For U.s. Schools

摘要

In a major speech on education on Mar. 10, the President called for linking teacher pay to performance, rolling out more charter schools to increase parents' choices, and closing schools that don't make the grade. A few days before the President's speech, Education Secretary Arne Duncan discussed this provocative agenda with BusinessWeek Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler, Washington Bureau Chief Jane Sas-seen, and Correspondent Steve LeVine.rnThe business community is very concerned about student proficiency in math and science. How will you treat these areas ?rnWe have 20 English teachers for every job and can't find a math teacher, and that's a problem. We have to pay math and science teachers differently. I also think early exposure for kids is really important. If you wait until high school to instill in kids lots of math and science, it's too late. We've got to push to get more kids taking algebra in eighthrngrade, and then you start to think about calculus in that fourth year [of high school].