Where Reform Should Start - Perdaily.com

Where Reform Should Start - Perdaily.com

Where Reform Should Start

by Leonard

It can be rather tedious writing day after day about what oblivious LAUSD administration continues to do wrong in the face of incontrovertible evidence. Therefore, I would like to make one of what I hope will be many suggestions put forth in the next few months by perdaily and others who come to the site as to what might be better approaches to accountable public education reform that has a likely chance of succeeding because it is based on an approach that is specific enough and grounded in an historical context as to what needs to be in place in order for success.

Before I make my proposal, I would like to establish some foundational principles, some of which we have already discussed over the last nine months in the context of why the present regime that runs LAUSD and other public education bureaucracies around the country aren't likely to be successful in the future:

1. While circumstances change over time with any problem, doing the same things that you've always done in the past (that have failed) don't increase your chances of success.
2. Leadership in public education reform requires mastery of the totality of what has transpired in public