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...With people worried about the direction of the country, the strength of the economy, and the emerging competition from our friends in Europe and Asia, it is time to give the matter [of a longer school year] another look," wrote Barrett in the November 1990 issue of The Atlantic Monthly...
According to the senator, the nation will "not get to world-class excellence" if the public education system remains intact. Barrett advocates longer hours in school, standardized testing, standard minimum expectations for curriculum, a school choice system based on the Cambridge public school system and a unique proposal for an "hour-glass" distribution of authority in the school system...
...Under Barrett's hour-glass design, the power to determine curriculum will rest with the parents and with state and national government--taking control away from local school boards...
...Barrett warns that unless there is "radical change" in the way the government molds the future of the public schools, private schools will reap a new population of students-- those dissatisfied with declining public education...
...Barrett says the radical change embodied in Christopher Whittle's Edison Project--which would create a chain of affordable private schools nationwide--will rob the public schools of its middle-class "customer base...