It has been said that one can build a crooked house on a strong foundation, and the house will stand. Conversely, one can build a well-crafted house on a substandard foundation, and the house will fall. Consider public schooling in America, for it is doubly flawed — a crooked structure atop a crumbling foundation — and its collapse is inevitable. The flaws are too many; reform is a pipedream; gravity is a force too powerful to be resisted. When we apply an architectural analogy to schools and schooling, we better understand the problems, as well as the eventual repercussions, of … Continue reading Crumbling Foundation