by Bruce Deitrick Price
No matter how much money is spent,
literacy rates plunge and SAT scores fall.
General knowledge throughout the society becomes more scant.
Our better students can’t compete against better foreign students.
The depressing statistics are all around us.
Everyone admits the public schools are doing a lousy job.
The question is, why can't we do more to improve them?
Typically, ed reformers promote two remedies:
the adoption of new policies or the imitation of best practice.
Both are saying, here’s the correct way to do things.
These are sensible paradigms for improvement.
Unfortunately, they don't work now because our educational establishment
tends to be ideologically rigid and pedagogically narrow.
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