Ken Robinson: How To Escape Education's Death Valley

Sir Ken Robinson discusses the irony of No Child Left behind in this 2013 TED talk. He argues that the Bush era policy stresses conformity (in a culture of compliance) and that is what is turning our kids off to the potential of education. He says that in some parts of America 60% of kids drop out of highschool and 80% of Native American kids drop out and he adds that if these numbers were halved it could create as much as a net gain to our economy of a trillion dollars.

Isn't that what's at stake? The future of our children AND our economy?