Quotes: "Decent People Trying Their Best And Failing"

@rpondiscio Schools are mainly filled with decent people trying their best and failing. And with depressing regularity, they are failing despite doing exactly what they were trained to do. -- Core Knowledge blogger Robert Pondiscio, in response to DFER's Joe Williams

 

Comments

[Bruce]

A major problem is that the people who are running the systems (and I mean at a high level, that of congressional legislators and state secretaries of education and board members) don't really know what they're doing, that is, they have very little in the way of knowledge and experience that qualifies them for their bold attempts to revise our educational culture. They reach their positions of power on other bases, perhaps the ability to work systems so as to attract campaign contributions, or the hubris that comes from being newly minted from elite universities, or from success in other endeavors such as business, or from political connections; they've worked their ways into positions of power, and are ambitious to achieve something, but their reach exceeds their grasp.