learning. we need better political leader who is want to compare themselves with the best chinese schools, not just the district next door. we need better business leader who is care about what happens in the school, not just outsource the jobs wherever they can get them. and we need better students, who come to school ready to learn not to text. y it takes a ville raj. thank you all, this is terrific. tom freedman, sal kahn, joel kline, wendy kof. i ll tell you why this is not going to be a ukrainian spring. there s a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. around here you don t make excuses. you make commitments.
rapidly. that s the first take away, the second take away, this is not a problem with poor children or children who grew up in deprived environments, this is a problem across the board in america. our highest performing kids are not remotely getting the results that other countries are getting. we re losing by two to one at the top of this challenge as well as at every other level below it. it s no longer acceptable. we really need to change, fareed, and we need to change quickly and dramatically. tinkering is not going to do it. john, you went to the highest performing school in the world with wendy, what was your take away going to that school in shanghai as to what the secret to their success is? . wendy and i went to this school with grades 1 through 5. dow ho do you do? do you have the kids stand on
away from some of the basics. let me just pick up on one point which i think is a point, u.s. alibi with technology. the thing will change education is teaching and learning. it s at that interface where it happens. technology can make teachers more empowered, more effective, the kind of things that sal is doing to help them. and you have a company amplified doing the same kind of thing. i think that s right. but i really, when you re struck by, when you listen to wendy and you listen to tom, they bent to visit this school in shanghai. what that was about was great teachers, we got to get great teachers constantly getting better and give them the tools and the help. and to you that means teacher evaluations? better pay, means more time on task. and it means the constant improvement that wendy, tom and others have long talked about. when you talk about these teachers constantly working with a each other, getting better at
their craft and using technology to empower and enable them, and to engage kids, that s where technology can change the game for us. wendy, your teach for all is now in 36 countries, what seemed to be the best practices that are applicable? one thing is, just to go back to the shanghai example. it was about teachers, it s also about school leaders and it s about system leadership, like, you know, we were blown away by the caliber of the folks who have over a long time driven the change and if you get under the covers, shanghai schools are stronger than others and they take those that are so that they can transfer the practices. this is a people business. i actually couldn t agree more that technology can give a ton of leverage to really strong people. but to me, we need, and this is what teach for all is about all,
inventiveness, because of its culture of creativity. and i agree with everyone who s talked before. is try to get more into the school system, try to get the school system to make sure that people have the skills so that everyone can participate in this economic engine. wendy, it seems to me what sal is saying is we don t need to become more like south korea, we need to become more like the very best of america, a kind of combination of rigor and inventiveness and open mindedness and creative thinking? of course i agree. i i think what the piza shows us is how much wasted potential there is in this country. it shows us what s possible. and i think what tom spoke to about what we saw in shanghai was that this is not some magic, it s not something that s unique to the chinese culture and i thought this was so fascinating. we go in there and we re listening to the man who s really led not only their