"Why is education lost in a Sargasso Sea?" The question is asked by outspoken Myron Lieberman, 41, director of basic research for the Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland, in The Future of Public Education (University of Chicago; $5). Lieberman's crackling answer: the "great debate" over improving U.S. schools is mired in "irrelevant" controversies, e.g., progressive v. basic education. What no one talks about is the No. 1 problem: correcting U.S. education's "anachronistic and dysfunctional power structure."
Published this week, Lieberman's provocative book argues that the "strategic problem lies with the teachers, their...
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