Why is education falling behind?

[DemPGH]

In the States, measures have been undertaken since the middle 1970s to water down public education (beginning with IDEA), and that's exactly what has happened. Right now, to listen to a person with a Ph.D. in Education or an ED.D. is almost comical. Public education is not anywhere near as rigorous as it should be, but private schools are largely not the answer because they're drawing from the same pool of people as teachers! Granted, a private school might give teachers a little more authority in their classrooms, but the fact that private schools are basically for profit negates that. The answer is to make public schools more like colleges/universities, but that won't happen. (I didn't learn anything until I went to university, and there I ate it up).