Who Should Be ‘The Decider’ for Our Public Schools?
by Julia Sass Rubin of Save our Schools NJ, an affiliate of Parents Across America; cross-posted at the Big Think.
In a recent big think profile, New Jersey’s Acting Commissioner of Education Christopher Cerf observed that consensus “is not the highest value in this world” and that “putting too high a premium on consensus and collaboration” could lead to bad solutions.
This may be true when it comes to corporations. But Mr. Cerf wasn’t discussing corporate restructuring; he was talking about making fundamental changes to the public education system within our democratic society.
Mr. Cerf referred to his preferred approach as one of “damn the torpedoes, full speed