There's a great piece by Texas superintendent John Kuhn suggesting that schools reflect our communities,
for better or worse. Can we improve our schools and communities? Of course we can. Should we close them and turn them over to billionaires who wouldn't want to live there? Probably not. Yet that's precisely what we're doing with our schools, as we follow programs more aligned to the druthers of Bill Gates, Eli Broad and the Walton family rather than anything based on research or demonstrated practice.
Now there have a second major Hollywood production,
demonizing teachers as the source of all that afflicts our communities. There are
great reasons to be suspicious of its motives, even if we ignore its
