Column: Rethinking what’s normal in meeting this moment in K-12 education

Column: Rethinking what's normal in meeting this moment in K-12 education

Those relics are hallmarks, however, of a K-12 education system that was built for the industrial age, a declining system that is rife with inequities, achievement gaps, ranking and sorting, and failing to prepare all learners for the rapid changes that are afoot in our economy and culture. To go back to that normal would be to fail our nation’s youth once again.