Heading into tonight's Save Our Schools / Parents Across America shindig here in NYC I am finally realizing that one of the main things that divides the reformy types from career educators is the thought that reform could make things worse rather than better. This possibility might seem hard to believe for reformers, many of whom can't imagine things being any worse (and many of whom, it should be said, have yet experienced few major setbacks in their own lives). But for those with a longer perspective (historical,
