John Redmond, recently retired director of executive education for the Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNC-Greensboro, outlines a key obstacle to education reform. Redmond offered these comments during a May 9, 2011, speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
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