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This week’s return to school has put back in the forefront the troubles facing many school districts and individual schools. The problems are defined in different ways by different parts of society, but all the symptoms point to poor performance. Students are not learning as they should. Two questions seem inseparable: why, and what to do. They seem inseparable, but they are not. Conventional thinking says that if the reason for poor performance can be discerned (why), then it can be addressed with this or that program or plan (what to do).
But, in fact, every explanation and accompanying solution appears to have failure built-in to it. If the problem Read the rest of this entry »