__ LIPS – Leading in Public Schools

 Once again people are grappling with the issue of whether or not we are really dealing with the big question of just what sort of schools do we need, and how should we decide what learning experiences look like within them if they are to be about a new set of “Three Rs”:  perhaps Relevance, Relationships and Rigour ?

This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get “left behind” but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can’t think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English.

Click here for a summary of the Time magazine cover story