No easy fixes.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Education tenure - Brief article

The former Monthly editor Nicholas Lemann recently observed in the New Yorker that "the clear implication of most school reform writing these days--that abolishing tenure would increase student learning--is an unproven assumption." I wanted to be sure I understood, so I called Nick and asked him for clarification. He said he did not mean that he favors tenure--indeed, he is not at all sure that he...