It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy
in what passes for
public policy debates these days, but the battle over
public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them
around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the
public dollars they use.
The
public and
policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly
around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due
in large part to the work of these individuals.