…that, or saying “This is what I’ve been saying!” (via C&L).
Twelth-graders' reading skills have hit a new low, but their grades continue to climb, according to federal officials who suspect the nation's schools are inflating grades.This is one of the thousands of examples in this country in which only a major change—one that will cause short-term pain/confusion/annoyance—can fix a system that is broken. Here’s my question: has major change of this scale—where you have to completely change a collective mindset—ever actually taken place? Pearl Harbor and WWII completely changed the way Americans thought about sacrifice (though 9/11 sure as hell didn’t). Anything else? And what would be the Pearl Harbor of the education system?
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