on Sol Stern's new book

[xatalantax]

Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice

I read this recently and it was excellent; here is a good review/summary.

Comments

[bostonista.livejournal.com]

Very interesting.

I really wish public schools were better. Even the ones without unions tend to suck - if they aren't run for the benefit of the teachers, they're run to make things easy for students so the school won't look bad. Hence the large number of students my freshman year in (my selective!) college who had never learned to write properly.