“There’s a crisis in education…”
“Our schools are in crisis…”
“Schools are failing…”
“We’re failing our kids…”
You hear some variation of the above almost every time the subject turns to American education – especially the public schools. It’s usually the first thing out of a corporate education reformer’s mouth before he/she unveils the disruptive, top-down, data-driven solution that will save us all. Davis Guggenheim made a famous corporate reform propaganda film claiming we were all “Waiting for Superman” to come save education. Well, if we’re waiting for superman, the above phrase and its variations are his theme music.
However, when we hear these words, the gut level reaction is to deny them. “What? Our schools are failing? Of course not!”
And then we look like deluded pollyannas trying to hide our heads in the sand from an obvious problem. Our schools are failing. It MUST be true. I heard…
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