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...Shanker said that his own research did not demonstrate any reason to believe that privatization would improve the state of public schools...
Instead of looking towards new methods of dubious efficacy, Shanker suggested that we look towards systems in other countries that have been shown to work. "If we were business people, we would look at the competition and try to see what they're doing that we're not," he said...
...Shanker pointed to the regional standards that countries such as France and Germany have as one of the reasons their students fare better scholastically than American students. "[Regional standards] work in other countries, and we don't have such a system," he said...
These standards let students recognize the "clear consequences for success in the future," Shanker said, and--unlike the American system--do not offer an arbitrary measure of success...
Other educational issues Shanker discussed included charter schools. He said that although he originally believed the chartering of schools "would bring out all sorts of creativity," lack of regulations will force a return to outmoded methods of teaching...