American schools are said to be failing. Like nineteenth-century medicine men, everybody is promoting everything, whether there is any evidence that it works or not. Over here we have vouchers, charters, privatization, longer school days, summer school, and merit pay. Over there we have the frequent testing of students, the testing of teachers, smaller class […]
James Comer
James P. Comer, M.D., is the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University's Child Study Center and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Yale's School of Medicine.
He founded the Center's School Development Program in 1968.