After a long, hard look at U.S. high schools, from opposite ends of a telescope, two educators last week agreed on the basic trouble with U.S. secondary education: too much book learning.
In the January Harper's, George Henry, principal of a 350-student high school in Dover, Del., contends that a third of all high-school students can't read or write well enough to learn much of anything from textbooks. What's more, he adds gloomily, they never will be able to. Says he:
"The state accepted long-ago the principle that all pupils, bright and dull, were...
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