Comparing Rose and Black

I think Lewis Black and Mike Rose both agree that education in America has really gone downhill in the past few years. Lewis Black says that a surprising number of the teachers in public schools today are not as qualified as they should be. He thinks it ridiculous for schools to be as nice as they are today. Some public schools can cost up to 500,000,000, and it just doesn’t make any sense for our economy.  Lewis Black supports charter schools, but he doesn’t think that there are enough of them for the amount of public schools that aren’t doing well. Mike Rose doesn’t exactly believe in charter schools like Black does. Rose says that charter schools are only a temporary fix to our failing public schools.“Stop looking for the structural or technological magic bullet – whether it’s charter schools or value-added analysis – that will improve education. Just when you think the lesson is learned – that the failure of last year’s miracle cure is acknowledged and lamented – our attention is absorbed by a new quick fix.” –Mike Rose. He also thinks we might need to think beyond test scores and international rankings in order to fix our educational system.