"Daily Show: Back in Black: Education Crisis" with Lewis Black and "The Answer Sheet: Mike Rose's Resolutions on Education" by Valerie Strauss

http://politicsisstupid.com/link/223041
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/some-2011-resolutions-someone.html

Valerie Strauss' article is about Mike Rose's ideas about the American education system, specifically the problems facing it and how to deal with it. Lewis Black's video is about the problems in it, but offers no solutions, instead focusing on mocking them and using sarcasm. Both of them, like most everyone else with any knowledge about the subject, think there are big problems with our education system. Mike Rose's thoughts are clear and straight forward, starting off with one simple but vitally important goal in reforming the educational system: "To have more young people get an engaging and challenging education. Black doesn't offer and solutions to the problems he discusses, but instead just makes a joke out of the stupidity of them, for example talking about a reality television show where an unqualified actor teaches tenth grade English. I really don't understand why anyone would ever be asked to compare the two, one is entirely comedic from the television channel Comedy Central while the other is entirely serious, and written by someone who has spent his life devoted to teaching and to our education system.