• School reform - US Education

    What are schools for?

    It’s been quite a week for me to be immersed in school reform. After speaking at the Voyager’s Community School education conference, I heard John Taylor Gatto and Ron Miller speak, among other reformers. I also went to an excellent differentiated instruction workshop with Jim Grant last Tuesday, in which he laid out many of the problems facing education today. On top of that, I just watched the film Waiting for Superman. Brewing on all of this led me to this question: What is education in our public schools for? Ask different people and you’ll get different responses. Is it…