Tough lessons
Paul Tough’s What It Takes To Make A Student is the cover story in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Plenty of things to talk about here, plenty of things to quibble about, but Tough’s central point—and one that should resonate for most people—is that the failure to educate children is a political failure, and […]
Draft of Accountability Frankenstein completed
The manuscript is done, or at least the initial drafting is done. It’s a relatively short MS—approximately 68,000 words, excluding references. In revision, that will probably stretch to 70,000, but it’s unlikely to get much larger. (December 28 update: The revised manuscript is about 73,000 words, with 12,800 words in the references section.) In contrast, […]