--- --- # Why We Can't Fire Our Way to Better Education by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 16, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 16, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Making it easier to fire teachers probably won’t fix American education.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-carr-vergara-appeal-education-reform-20160322-story.html) By Sarah Carr in the Los Angeles Times **2\.** [**America can open elite colleges to our veterans. Here’s how.**](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/when-veterans-enroll-at-elite-schools-theyre-not-just-students/) By Jackie Judd at PBS Newshour **3\.** [**We shouldn’t be crowdfunding for essential public goods. We should just fund them.**](http://www.wired.com/2016/03/crowdfunding-is-evil/) By Peter Moskowitz in Wired **4\.** [**Should we stop fighting invasive species?**](http://nautil.us/blog/ecologists-cant-beat-invasive-species-so-theyre-joining-them) By Lorraine Boissoneault in Nautilus **5\.** [**American exceptionalism doesn’t mean we’re always right. It means we always try.**](http://warontherocks.com/2016/03/west-point-and-american-exceptionalism/) By David McCormick in War on the Rocks  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Why We Can't Fire Our Way to Better Education ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4261232/fire-better-education/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4261232/fire-better-education/"},"headline":"Why We Can't Fire Our Way to Better Education","datePublished":"2016-03-16T16:01:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:15.844Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4261232/fire-better-education/","keywords":["Innovation","Veterans","Education","Crowdfunding"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4261232/fire-better-education/","name":"Why We Can't Fire Our Way to Better Education"}}]}] ```