Change the Game: Create a Federal Innovation Office for Ed

Posted on January 13, 2009

The Brookings Institution is calling on the federal government to "change the game" in public education by creating a federal Office of Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Department of Education. The authors cite the achievement gap between poor and minority students and their more affluent peers, along with findings that US 15-year-olds perform worse than students in 23 countries in math and behind 11 countries in reading.