Thanks for sharing. Here's a horror: No Child Left Behind and it's progeny, Common Core, have maximized standardization of the curriculum component, starving te

Thanks for sharing. Here's a horror: No Child Left Behind and it's progeny, Common Core, have maximized standardization of the curriculum component, starving teachers and institutions of funding and flexibility of time to offer any form of education for students who would benefit from it. Gatto is right--our system is a machine. And it produces quite a bit of literacy at low cost to the people who need it. It also fails to solve problems that it could.