Lots of acronyms, no vision guiding K-12 schools
By Michael Matsuda
The iconic Helen Keller once famously stated, “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.” Today we are awash with political leaders who can’t see past their own focus groups. With respect to solving our education crisis, politicians and policy experts call for all sorts of accountability measures and rating metrics. But no one is asking the really big question: “What is our mission?”
Aren’t we supposed to begin with the end in mind? The main problem quite simply is that we have no vision, no guiding blueprint for education. We are completely in the dark compared with Keller, a suffragist and social activist.
Quick, ask anyone in the system from the superintendent to a principal to a teacher, “What is
