We do a great job of tearing down here, but our occasional policy ideas gotta begin with the question of --what makes a policy succeed?
This was also an attempt to ask some questions (indirectly)- to open the door to discussing  what makes a policy fail--even a good policy. But, as usual, it never quite got that far. Maybe next time.
And I relish any debate on education, as my diaries will show, including this one. Think of the education conversation as plan "B" for me--

Here's a third elephant in the living room that's too dead to crawl to the kitchen:

In the reductionist consumer culture of "Enterprise Village", ---a place that strongly resembles Sarkoland--
who makes the best, most easily "managed" workers?
The well-educated?
Or the trained Parrots?

"There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.