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Mike Rose notes that no one in power is asking fundamental questions about the purpose of education and whether much-hyped reforms might do more harm than good.

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We need to reclaim a broader vision, for we have terribly narrowed our thinking about school.

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What’s new about them? They sound like the skills one would have gotten from a good 20th century education—or from a lot further back than that.

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The Obama administration has committed serious money to education reform, but many of the Department of Education’s big ideas are flawed.

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Business leaders are eager to meddle in education but rarely take responsibility for the root of education’s problem—economic despair and mind-numbing mass media.

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What miracle talk and magic-bullet solutions share is the reduction of complexity, of the many levels of hard, creative work necessary to make schooling successful in the United States.

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