None other than the late Steve Jobs understood that "the problem [with education] is not one that technology can hope to solve".

We can make things easier, but Jobs pointed out:

"I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I’ve had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent.

It’s a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they’re inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy."  Article

Homeschoolers understand this better than most and have solved the bureacracy problem by eliminating it. The public schools have a much more difficult problem, though: as long as the teacher unions can skim enough from teachers' pay to buy the politicians and control salary, curiculum, and competition, outcomes in the public school system will continue to spiral downwards.  Steve Jobs had it right - only competition will solve this problem; only getting the government out of the education business will solve this problem.