Morning Video: Schnur On The Education Disconnect

Here's some footage of the elusive but ever-present Jon Schnur discussing the disconnect between the public's beliefs about education and about their own children's schools - a gulf he describes as being as important and difficult to address as any specific policy or programmatic issue. Bonus appearance: National Journal's Fawn Johnson!

Comments

[Bruce]

Easy public satisfaction with local public schools running on autopilot is perhaps the bigger problem, but noteworthy is the assertion that a consensus is forming around policy issues and the plausibly unstated suggestion that those policies are good ones: I think that consensus needs questioning, and judging by the large number of people who have been protesting in streets and parks in the last few years, I think many people would agree that that consensus may be much more easily assented to inside power circles than it is on school campuses.

[Sarah]

Schools in general are great at looking, upon a rudimentary glance, fine learning establishments. That, more than anything else, is why the average parent knows far less about their child’s school than they should.