SCHOOL REFORM 101

This site was founded by Lisa Nuss. There are many people whose thoughts inform this site and soon I hope to post their names and contributing posts... However, our experience with children in public schools is that the paramount goal should be to save our children, no t the schools. We plan to explore how entrenched administrative bureaucracies at the state and school district level have perverted the idea of local control, and petty bureaucrats have lead us to a place where our six year-olds are forced to sit in chairs all day, often with no recess or movement between 9-3 other than to get up from one chair and go, - without any talking! - to sit in another chair... Zhao said we have a challenge and an opportunity to get education right. Our current educational reforms - a focus on assessment and testing - are making the same mistake Nokia did; they are trying to perfect the old traditional form, which no longer works. The old platform didn't work for Nokia and it won't work for..