The solution isn't to feminize little boys or medicate them into compliance, but to create learning environments that respect who they are and what they bring to society.
Virginia Governor Kaine's pre-school initiative and Fordham Foundation's national standards proposal are just the latest in a series of education "reforms" that won't work. The only one that will: empower parents to select their children's schools.
The recent report highlighting how states omit (hide) nearly 2 million children from the federal No Child Left Behind accountability system points out the foolishness of relying on government to hold its public schools genuinely accountable.
Fifty years ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman warned that our government-run public school system, like all monopolies, would lead to inefficiency and mediocrity. He was right.
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