We're the only developed country.... I mean, we're not going to put the Constitution on the table, but we do have to come up with a strategy to have a national vision—for example, a standard approach.
What has happened in China over the last decade is mind-boggling. The only reason I'm more comfortable with China lately is that I've been asked to do a paper, and the colleague I brought in to co-author it is actually a professor with the National Institute of Education Sciences in Beijing, so I'm learning more about how it works.
China has a national education department. They have a national institute that creates the curriculum. It even creates the learning resources and then puts that out into the provinces to implement, so they have a cascading opportunity; when they decide to make change, they make change quickly, and change has happened in the last decade.
The other thing is that there's a culture there that strongly embraces science and technology as being really important for society. In Let's Talk Science, we're about citizenship as well as employment, and it is a cultural attribute that is embraced there. I believe that when parents are mobilized and understand the value of science for their kids' future and when you have a cascading mechanism to have a vision that will align people's work, you can get things done very quickly.