ABSTRACT
When I asked someone in the United States what he thought about a vision of ‘Every School, a Good School’, his reaction was “You must be joking!” He asked me whether the Singapore minister or the US secretary said it. He asked me whether ‘No Child Left Behind’ has been replaced with ‘No School Left Behind’. The United States was still reeling from the latest campus shooting. ‘Every School, a Good School’ was unfathomable. He observed grimly that at the rate his district was going, it would soon be ‘No Good School Left’. If I were to tell someone in Singapore that “Every school is a good school”, the person would probably say, dismissively, “Every school is a good school, but some schools are just better than others!”
