Sowing the seeds of education reform

By Marilyn Achiron Editor, Directorate for Education and Skills. Plant a tree? Easy: dig up soil, insert sapling, cover roots with soil, water abundantly.
Unless the tree you want to plant is from Japan and the soil in which you want to plant it is in Paris. Then you have to negotiate with two different ministries of agriculture and arrange to have a branch of a Japanese cherry blossom tree grafted onto roots developed in France before you can follow the four simple steps above. Read more...