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Monday, August 23, 2010

Perspectives from the Other Side of the Fence � InterACT

Perspectives from the Other Side of the Fence � InterACT

Perspectives from the Other Side of the Fence

My grandmother often repeated the familiar adage, “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” I kind of got the point, which was that things possessed by others tended to look a bit better than what I had, even though they really weren’t.

We are used to hearing that the American public school system is “failing” or “broken.” There is a constant drone of criticism from multiple mouths that we are losing a global race to excellence; that we are being passed