“Our
schools aren’t failing,” Daggett said. “The problem is that in the world
outside, schools are changing faster than ours.”
Bill Daggett told an audience of almost 1,000 people at the
BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo, Miss., that America’s schools are still doing
many of the same things they did nearly 100 years ago for no reason other than
tradition.
Those schools are educating students better today than they ever have, said
Daggett, an internationally recognized leader in the field. The problem is the
world is changing much more quickly—and American students are entering school
much less prepared.
“Our schools aren’t failing,” he said during the Forum on the Future of Education. “The problem is that in the world outside, schools are changing faster than ours.”
