Reform / Deform
DadTalk is a regularly intelligent blog – one of the few I come back to. He had just the same reaction I did to a recent report of “Yet Another ‘Big’ Plan to Reform Education”
I would love to tell you about proposed redesign of the nation’s educational system, but I can’t. Why? Because some boneheads decided to charge $19.95 for a report that is supposed to be a “far-reaching redesign of the American education system,” according to a skimpy New York Times article.
He goes on to critique the report, based on what little he can learn of it (more than I did) as yet another round of “bureaucratic structural changes to America’s educational system.”
I wonder: Do the high-power commissions that generate this sort of dreck believe they’re making a difference? At times, I think reports like this are deliberate subterfuge to avoid the really difficult questions.