Teaching the teachers.

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

"Education schools are hopeless. Here's how to fix them," says a recent op-ed in the New York Times. The solutions mentioned in the article include making sure that the teachers know their subject and that they are effective in the classroom. What's discouraging about this is that the Washington Monthly began preaching this gospel in our second issue, March x969, almost forty-one years ago. We have, as with our other favorite causes, not hesitated to elaborate and repeat our case many, many times over the years. The...