The United States has been traditionally too “self-reverential” when it comes to evaluating the quality of domestic policies, she said.
“This is an opportunity to look outside our borders for other models and better ways of doing things,” she said. “I think people can use OECD as a point of departure to look deeper into countries and get into a rich level of details one country at a time.”
Adelman said the U.S. can learn much from Europe and Asia but will do well to measure its own performance by comparing one generation against the next.
“Anyone can put numbers on a board,” he said. “You don’t pay attention to sports rankings, you pay attention to what’s going on for you.”
