Gabriel Arana says that in the world of education, there’s no such thing as a Superman.
While it would be nice to believe that an army of Jaime Escalantes, the famed Latin American educator who taught calculus to inner-city kids, or Dangerous Minds Michelle Pfeiffers, is all our education system — and struggling schools in particular — need, the reality is, of course, not so simple. It’s just not true that good teacher = performing student.
