Not everything has to be immediate.
What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.
School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.
Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.
Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.
When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.
Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.
I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.