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Link: http://parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/11/the-best-idea-how-to-fix-us-schools/?hpt=C2

Do we need funding to improve the education?  Do we need great teachers to implrove it?  Do we need a great leadership (principal, president, dean chair, etc.) to improve it?  Do chldren have to have good parents to do great in education systems?  What are we waiting for?

Link: http://www.glass-castle.com/clients/www-nocheating-org/adcouncil/research/cheatingfactsheet.html

Most of the reasons why students cheat on the exam are based on how teachers behave in class.  Although you are teaching well the students, some of them still keep such a mind to sneak out with any instructors... 

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-atkinson-phd/the-failure-of-american-h_b_626289.html

How many people know about this fact? 

Link: http://whoyoucallingajesse.com/past/2009/01/05/tackling-the-biggest-problem-in-higher-education/

The inefficiency is depicted by the dysfunction of the bureaucratic system.  Basically, university does not provide incentives to the workers.  Most professors are concerned about if they can get tenure.  Things they improve situations will likely less evaluated, especially if it is associated with quality.  Professors are interested in the number, only quantity, because it is easy to do such evaluation process.  Essentially, no student and no other staff are relevant with their success.  The system was supposed to be efficient; however, if nobody checked the system itself, worshipping the system will be replaced as their entire goal.  This is the process of becoming inefficient.