We might say the Recovery Act, but those didn't require policy changes.

The government has been reforming education.

He proposed a reform in the educational system.

One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education.

Educational reforms still have a long way to go.

He advocates reform in university education.

All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

I've had a chance to look at education reform from a lot of perspectives.

When a politician stands up campaigning for elected office and says, I want to fix our health system.

It is the educational system that needs to be reformed in this area.

And so, needless to say, over those years

I prefer to believe that we are engaged in a fundamental reformation, a reformation like the religious Reformation of the 16th century.

Instead, what we got was Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation, and, you know, the Thirty Years' War.

We do. As rational as we are, as committed to intellect as we are.

That would be Sage Smith Pallotta a real social

Social reforms.

And about five years ago, we asked what was the most important need for innovation in schooling here in the U.K.

Surely, just as we invest in R and D, two, three, four percent, of our GDP, of our economy, what if we put, let's say, one percent of public spending into social innovation, into elder care, new kinds of education, new ways of helping the disabled?

If we can help every child, every teacher, every school, every principal, every parent see what improvement is possible, that only the sky is the limit to education improvement, we have laid the foundations for better policies and better lives.

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And that is reflected in the kinds of situations that you see.

...about your supposed reformation.

So what if we decided to create a challenge to the governors of the country, and the price to entry into this competition used the same amount that the bipartisan group approved in Congress for the Race to the Top for education, 4.5 billion, which sounds like a lot, but actually it's less than one tenth of one percent of federal spending.

Where it comes from is an organization called the Young Foundation, which, over many decades, has come up with many innovations in education, like the Open University and things like Extended Schools,

Because we sit and get all day long.

Class sizes are smaller than in many countries.

What Howard Moskowitz was doing was saying,

Where is learning to talk?

These technologies, combined with the extraordinary talents of teachers, provide an opportunity to revolutionize education.

The reform of both entrance examination system and curriculum makes slow progress.

So that's why we need three more kinds of innovation.

And there are two key things it's got to do.

Why aren't we?

Swiss bank socialists, crocodile liberators, vampire elites, quack revolutionaries.

Education

I was so frustrated that I was just educating him.

And this is what they ended up coming with.

What we need and the word's been used many times in the past few days is not evolution, but a revolution in education.

We know that education empowers people.

If we could do it, we would change the world.

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So, you know, America has always been known as a highly innovative country.

And the example of PlSA shows that data can be more powerful than administrative control of financial subsidy through which we usually run education systems.

A little known fact about India in the 1990s is that the country not only has undertaken economic reforms, the country has also undertaken political reforms by introducing village self rule, privatization of media and introducing freedom of information acts.

But we really have to educate.