Well, the New York Times published an article the other day that must have made every liberal reader orgasmic Silicon Valley, billionaires are remaking american schools; some of them are offering grants to encourage innovation. Others like Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook, are taking a more profitable approach. He's got software in one hundred schools, which supposedly puts kids in charge of their own learning and turns teachers into facilitators and mentors. Obviously, if his software takes off it's a huge market and paid for by taxpayers, not Zuckerberg. Now, while these. rich and influential titans of technology are focused on education. Millions of students are serving as de facto beta testers for their ideas, as the times puts it. Anyway, Sure to bring a smile to every liberal, I mean it

all. The elements: rich, successful, progressive tech, gurus on federal subsidies, giving back to the community beta testing their kids, but in reality this is a damning indictment of the state of public education and all the money american taxpayers a poured into it for decades. We ought to have the best education system in the world now not years in the future, and we shouldn't be these tech tightens the do it. Instead, we have massive institutional failure, an education system that has been run into the ground by liberals and their unions in the first place and less that's acknowledged, Newton. Knowledge, no matter how great will not turn it around.