Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk
Or you could do what the UK does:

1) Throw money at education. If it costs more, it must be better, right?
2) Masses of exams. That helps learning!
3) Increase the number of high grades. Ignore independant experts who say standards are in freefall.
4) If they're failing at 15, keep as many as possible in school until they're 21.
Or appoint an entire department with the job of telling children they are doing very well and are going to be successful, literate, and other such comforting things.
Of course, half of these children are concern with nothing other than their band which they are adamant will get a big break sometime soon and whimsically fail those infamous bell-jar exams and end up doing Politics, Psychology, and Film Studies at Napier University...