Murdoch: “Idol” Has Higher Standards than US Schools

Friday, 08 October 2010 | by Pat's Picks

Rupert Murdoch uses his platform at the Wall Street Journal to make an appeal for better public education in the US. He uses another one of his properties to make his point: “We have tougher standards on ‘American Idol’. And so long as we refuse to measure success by what our children are learning, we’re going to have higher performance standards for pop stars than for public schools.” He places a lot of the blame on teacher’s unions, saying schools need the ability to hire and fire based on performance.