Unless reforms are “irreversible,” warns Barber, people might undo what’s been done because they will “wish for the past.” Thus he tells policy makers to “work on the culture and the minds of teachers and parents.”

According to Barber, education reform is a “global phenomenon,” no longer to be managed by individuals or sovereign countries. Education reform has “no more frontiers, no more barriers,” he said at a British Education Summit last August.

FK – Time to get the kids out of the government schools and form neighborhood schools.