When the national conversation about our schools becomes less of a dialogue and more of a shouting match …
When student progress leads to numerical judgments instead of words of encouragement …
When graduates of for-profit colleges quickly discover that the outstanding balances on their student loans are massively greater than the value of their degrees …
And when government officials in charge of public education seem to be doing their best to destroy it …
I can’t simply retire to Sarasota (see the photo above) without at least attempting to understand what’s happened to education in the United States. And how to repair the damage.