By Austin Carr, from: http://www.fastcompany.com/1689358/a-hundred-companies-join-forces-for-change-the-equation-private-sector-education-initiative?partner=homepage_newsletter
Out of 30 industrialized nations, the United States ranks 21st in science and 25th in math. We’re spending more money than ever on schools, but with few results. Huge federal programs such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top are clunky, slow-moving bureaucratic nightmares. The American education system is broken. In order to fix it, the public sector needs to start keeping pace with the private sector. How? By getting the private sector involved.