Linda Darling-Hammond: If we want the U.S. to score like Finland and Singapore, lets make our education system like Finland and Singapore.

Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor at Stanford, was many people's choice for Secretary of Education. Unfortunately, Barack Obama went with his pal Arne Duncan. In this insightful article on the Washington Post blog "The Answer Sheet," Darling-Hammond explains how different our current reforms are from what the highest performing countries are doing.

She explains how the teacher bashing and union busting going on in our country right now is completely missing in high-performing countries such as Finland and Singapore. Instead, these countries support their teachers, give them lots of time to train and work together, and pay them top salaries.

The link is here.