Education

Over the past 50 years test scores in K-12 education have not improved but the cost per student has quadrupled in real dollars. Teacher salaries have kept ahead of inflation and class size has been reduced from 22 to 15. During these years the experts have tried things like No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top but these have only made things more complicated for teachers. Some have proposed that student discipline problems have disrupted the system and others go even further to suggest that this is because of the lack of fathers in the home. Teachers are being asked to take on the responsibilities of parenting. Students who receive private tutoring show marked improvement and this leads to the question of using AI as a one-to-one student/teacher program. Something different is needed.