In this week’s New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell writes a great short piece about the problems of the current "standards movement" in education. While the data he uses is nothing new, what I loved about the piece was how he compared the current movement to the industrial-efficency movement of one hundred years ago. The problem, as Gladwell states, is:
The only problem, of courseand its not a trivial oneis that children arent widgets
It’s a great quick read. And all the data points coming out against NCLB these days lead us to ask an overwhelming question:
Who is actually for this bill?
