The Educated Reporter: The most successful gurus you never heard of.

The Educated Reporter: The most successful gurus you never heard of.

The most successful gurus you never heard of.

by Linda Perlstein

Ruby Payne. Robert Marzano. Richard duFour. Douglas Reeves. Harry and Rosemary Wong. If you haven’t heard these names, you are not a teacher or a principal. You probably aren’t a school board member. But you might be an education journalist.

School districts spend millions on consultants like these, who specialize in everything from formative assessment to understanding poor kids to how to greet your students on the first day of class. Some educators