Tough Lessons About The Collapsing Of The Education System

There’s money to be made in education, argues Bob Bowdon, but entirely if you snip out the unprofitable bits, like skillful teachers. In his documentary “The Cartel,” Bowdon, a New Jersey television news newsman, turns the camera upon the massive corruption and misdirection that has led his state to expend more than any other on its students just with shoddy results. It’s not toilsome for Bowdon to illustrate that something’s awfully wrong with a state that pays $17,000 per student but can only manage a 39% reading proficiency rate — that there’s a crisis is undeniable, how to deal with it is different question entirely.