Somehow the skills, knowledge, and will necessary to actually improve the system are lost in a sea of recycled fads and meaningless jargon. We have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff and keeping the wheat. Vouchers, charter schools, and the growing home schooling movement add to the already bewildering milieu. Answers to these and other questions depend on whom you ask. Personally, I am among many who are quite skeptical of education reform efforts.
Experience can be instructive, sometimes uplifting, and other times chthonic to say the least.
And on and on the cycle goes. In education, there is plethora of information but a paucity of knowledge. The problem is, we in education often treat information as if it were knowledge, with predictable, often disastrous results. This is a risky page. It is also a serious page.