Christopher Cerf on The Lost Decade

“Candor is rare in education circles. But someone needs to name what we all know to be true: Our schools are increasingly held hostage to the political and cultural agendas of both the left and the right. Whatever the merits of such agendas, they have diverted schools from their core educational mission. The tragic result is that we are falling to prepare students for success in life. And yet we can, Wilson argues in this riveting analysis. We’ve lost our way in the fight for better schools. Pick yourself up, he says. Get back to the battle. We can win yet.” 

~  Christopher Cerf, former Superintendent of Newark Public Schools and New Jersey Commissioner of Education