Here?s the problem, and some things we can do about it.

The public schools are geniuses at Chatter. That would mean proposals, press releases, announcements, alibis, pedagogical breakthroughs, denials, new methods, claims, innovations, sophistries, statistics, excuses, reorganization schemes, cover-ups, revised test scores, lies, explanations, more excuses.

What the public schools are not good at, unfortunately, is Content. That would ...

More than a century ago, Maria Montessori reached a brilliant insight. Observing children at a mental institution, she wondered: ?Suppose we created a lush, sensuous, mentally-jazzed environment that constantly challenged, provoked and inspired these young minds...??

Montessori acted on her insight. She created a new kind of school for supposedly retarded children. Very quickly, her students were equal to ?normal ...