I have no quarrel with the comments stated herein;however, there seems to be one major ingredient missing. LEARNING! To the best of my knowledge ( which I admit has not been updated in some time), NO ONE truly knows how a person learns. Yes there are many theories but NOT A SINGLE LAW. Seems to me that this is where the emphasis should be, finding out how people actually learn then one can direct the other aspects to ensuring such learning does occur.I think we blame teachers for students not learning when the teachers and those that govern education, themselves have no idea exactly what should be happening in the classroom.
That is nonsense. There is a lot of research, and many students do learn very well. But children are different, and teaching is an art. What has been missing is that learning has not been the metric by which schools have been measured. Attendance was the basis for funding. Consequently, teaching sometimes declined to babysitting. The best proof of that is the concept of the substitute teacher who need not know the subject or the children.