I read Obama's speech about education today. It's good on paper. Everything he says about where we're falling short is absolutely true. His plans sound good in theory and his "inspired" remarks draw wild applause. They won't work in practice, though.
That's exactly where No Child Left Behind fell short. It was heavy on solid theory, but fell apart on implementation. It's like they're trying to use a business model for school reform. That's not going to work. Schools are different from traditional businesses in so many ways.
My suggestion would be for the president to put together an advisory board of sorts with plain, ordinary teachers from a cross-section of society - urban, rural, inner-city, suburban - and actually listen to their experience. That's where the workable ideas are going to come from.
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