Public education - or ‘public indoctrination’, if you will, is in urgent need of fixing. Early indications are that Ms. DeVos is apt to make some good headway in this regard.
I think it’s important to note that we put men on the moon with slide rules, relatively slow and low capacity computers, chalkboards, and textbooks. Most Americans had a good grasp of English, Math, Science and could think creatively and critically.
Point being we have done far more with far less. Time to get back to the fundamentals in public education. Home school needs to be a viable alternative as well (void of local/state harassment).
The government's K-12 socialist entitlement schools can't be fixed precisely because they are a socialist-entitlement. They are compulsory-use and compulsory-funded. Compulsion means the threat of police and court action.
What is needed is that we begin to move toward complete privatization of all schooling. The end goal should be complete separation of school and state.