The Huffington Post – Deborah Loewenberg Ball
“America’s educational leaders seem to be experts at starting and fighting wars over our children’s education, rather than experts in building it. . . . And these wars had costs. American students were, overall, neither learning to read or to do math well enough. The education wars absorbed resources that could have been better deployed in the service of a system that could support the development of better instruction in reading and math, and in better results for children.”(more)