Rethinking the U.S. Department of Education

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[Commentary] Here’s what a reformed US Department of Education could look like. The bureaucratic organization of the current Education Department is scrapped in favor of a flat, functional, and future-oriented organizational structure, consisting of four interconnected and mission-driven centers: the Center for 21st Century Learning and Classrooms, the Center for the Dissemination of Best Practices, the Center for Innovation and Investment, and the Center for International Education and Cooperation. These four centers would share a single goal: the creation and dissemination of 21st-century learning based on the best science, research, and practice. When the Founders dedicated themselves to the great American experiment more than 200 years ago, they were in it for the long haul. We must be, too. If we lose public education, our society will be diminished.

[Cookson Jr. is the president of Ideas without Borders, an education consulting firm based in Washington]


Rethinking the U.S. Department of Education