School reform has become a major industry since the Reagan era, when the 1983 report A Nation at Risk judged U.S. schools to be so mediocre as to endanger the economic future of the country. Mayors and presidents, corporate leaders and small-business owners, parents and taxpayers have said again (and again and again): […]
Larry Cuban
Larry Cuban is a professor of education at Stanford University. He is the co-author of Cutting Through the Hype: A Taxpayer's Guide to School Reforms and the author of The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses.