From Bob Herbert’s Clueless in America: “Bill Gates offered a brutal critique of the nation’s high schools a few years ago, describing them as ‘obsolete’…Said Mr. Gates: ‘By obsolete, I don’t just mean that they are broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools — even when they’re working as designed — cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.’”