American Schools are Getting Better

American Schools are Getting Better: At some point a few decades back, "reformers" who wanted to improve American education got into the habit of overstating the problems with American public education. They won a lot of political success, and have done enough things that now people who don't like the reformers also like to overstate the problems with American public education. So you have a narrative dominated by tales of failing union-ravaged schools and declining drill-and-kill reformer-ravaged skills even though the evidence suggests that, as Kevin Drum argues, the school system is actually steadily improving.