The Fragile Achievement of Public Schools

Yohan: What I'm hearing from you, Yohan is an understanding of history that leads to a really pragmatic approach to educational reform and the politics of education in the present. And what listeners may not be aware of if they don't read the large output of essays and op-eds, the U-place all over the internet and in print publications insofar as they still exist. You are an advocate for an approach to public education that I think would frustrate people on both the right and the left. That doesn't mean I'm against state standards or state legislation or upholding the rights of all peoples under the constitution but it means that there's a practical reality here which is that what made