Yesterday, at Winco, I was thumbing through the August Wired, which I seldom buy. My eye was caught by an article, “The New Way To Be a Fifth Grader,” and I took it home. A breath of fresh air! In an age when we are deluged from every quarter with Reformist baloney telling us over and over how bad American public schools are, here is a man with some actual ideas for how to do things better.
At last, something new! Well actually, I was struck by how much it resembled what Herb Grosdidier was trying to do at Payette High School forty years ago. What Herb lacked was not vision, but the technology to make his program really practical.
Reading something like this makes me almost sorry I retired when I did.
I hope to comment in more detail here at the Peavine Quarter as time allows. In the meantime, run out and buy it or read it at http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/.