The K-12 approach fails students. My school system is flipping it around.
Public education in the United States is known as a K-12 system, but it is nothing of the sort. That phrase conjures images of children moving along a coherent 13-year educational path. What they encounter, instead, are three disconnected institutions — elementary, middle and high schools — that share a district and superintendent but not the responsibility of preparing students for the next phase of learning.
