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Saturday, April 16, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Final results for our poll, do we live in an age of insanity or stupidity, and was that the right question?

NYC Public School Parents: Final results for our poll, do we live in an age of insanity or stupidity, and was that the right question?

Final results for our poll, do we live in an age of insanity or stupidity, and was that the right question?

Not long ago, we featured a poll on this blog, the idea for which originally came from a speech by Diane Ravitch. We asked readers, "Do we live in an age of insanity or stupidity?" when it comes to education policy.

Here are the results: 33% for insanity; 59% for stupidity; 6% for neither.

But was this really the right question?

We live in an age when education policy is being made by non-educators like Bill Gates, who calls for class