Education: What is it? How to do it?

If you sense a lack of agreement on what education is and the best way to do it, there seems to be a lot of ferment in the field right now.

I recommend three recent New York Time articles:

"Challenges in Replicating Charter School Success," which examines whether charter schools are any better than standard public schools;

"The Education of Diane Ravitch," in which the Assistant Secretary of Education in the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration concludes that neither choice nor testing improve education;

And "Plan B - Skip College," which challenges the idea that we should push for college for everyone.

Each of the articles is worth a read.