Herbert Kohl lives in Berkeley, Calif. He wears blue jeans and T shirts decorated with Indian warriors, and he sports bushy, unkempt hair. When he talks excitedly about the plight of American education—which is often—Kohl paces and gestures intently, scattering books, pens and manuscripts in his path.
"People think that there was such a thing as the 'good old days' in public education in America," he says. "Well, I quote 'Moms' Mabley [the late comedienne]: 'People talk about the good old days. I was there; where was they?' " Kohl, 39, looks and sounds like a throwback to the radical '60s. He...
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