States think in lockstep. Districts, given the time and resources, can come up with solutions on student achievement. And outside vendors, she added, can help significantly in that process perhaps with local money, reallocated internally. She challenged those in publishing and in other for-profit education ventures many of whom have worked previously in public schools to explain their motivations to the former colleagues who now comprise their target market. I may know the answer, and that's inertia.
Public education is plagued by inertia.
Wheeler, in common with other panelists, emphasized publishers' role in the critical area of staff development. Don Shalvey , previously superintendent of the San Carlos, Calif., school district, is now CEO of a company charged with creating 100 charter public schools in that state's 10 most troubled districts. School choice naturally opens up the marketplace to a greater variety of classroom materials. Nothing in our nation drives educational equity. In tandem with more technology in homes, he forecast an increase in after-school education.